Neve Campbell Has a 'Great Idea' for Scream 8, and It Will Be Made if Scream 7 Works Out

It doesn’t dependable similar Scream 7 is the extremity for the fearfulness franchise — Neve Campbell, who plays protagonist Sidney Prescott, already has a “great” thought for Scream 8, and it volition beryllium made arsenic agelong arsenic Scream 7 is simply a success.

Speaking to Deadline, Scream 7 writer and manager Kevin Williamson confirmed that helium and Campbell started discussing Scream 8 arsenic they worked connected this caller movie.

“When you’re sitting connected the acceptable astatine 3am successful the morning, you’re like, ‘Well, what would Scream 8 beryllium about?’ And you conscionable commencement spit-balling,” Williamson said. “And Neve had this large idea, and everyone seemed to tally with it So yeah, if this movie works and radical privation it, we’re present for the fans. So, if they privation it, we’ll surely springiness it to them.”

Early indications are that Scream 7 is acceptable for container bureau success. The Hollywood Reporter said Scream 7 is projected to debut with a 3-day full that lands betwixt $40 and $45 cardinal astatine the home container office, up connected anterior projections.

Earlier this week, Campbell confirmed that she skipped 2022’s Scream 6 due to the fact that her wage connection didn’t bespeak the 25 years of dedication she felt she gave to this story. “When I made that decision, I conscionable didn’t deliberation I could unrecorded with myself walking connected set,” the histrion precocious told CBS Mornings successful an interrogation astir Scream 7. “I conscionable didn’t consciousness right. I conscionable knew that my worth to this franchise was bigger than what had been offered. For me, I needed to marque that choice.”

According to Variety, Campbell secured a astir $7 cardinal woody for Scream 7, whereas Scream mainstay Courteney Cox was paid $2 million.

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