Courteney Cox ‘in talks’ to reprise classic role in Scream 7 as Neve Campbell rejoins horror franchise

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Courteney Cox is in talks to reprise her role in the Scream franchise, a brand new report claims.

As effectively as her role as Monica Geller in Friends, Cox is understood to many for her portrayal of Gale Weathers in the entire horror franchise’s movies thus far, beginning with Scream in 1996 and most just lately in the 2023 sixth version, Scream VI.

On Friday (29 March), Variety reported that the actor is now having conversations to return for the seventh outing of the movie, in accordance to a number of sources.

Scream 7 has been the topic of a lot dialogue in current months, following the departure of former sequence star Melissa Barrera, Wednesday actor Jenna Ortega and former director Christopher Landon.

Earlier this month, it was introduced that Neve Campbell had rejoined the franchise. The actor, who has performed sequence protagonist Sidney Prescott in 5 of the Scream movies, initially exited the movies a 12 months earlier than Scream VI was filmed after a pay dispute.

Initially, Campbell had defined that the studio’s wage supply “did not equate to the value I have brought to the franchise”.

However, the 50-year-old actor shared information of her return with an Instagram publish on 12 March.

“Sidney Prescott is coming back!!!!” Campbell wrote, alongside an image of the film script’s cowl. “It’s always been such a blast and an honour to get to play Sidney in the Scream movies. My appreciation for these films and for what they have meant to me, has never waned. I’m very happy and proud to say I’ve been asked, in the most respectful way, to bring Sidney back to the screen and I couldn’t be more thrilled.”

Barrera, who performed Sam Carpenter, departed the franchise in November after making her debut in the fifth movie, 2022’s Scream, and starring in Scream VI the next 12 months.

The In the Heights actor was “quietly dropped” from the seventh movie, reportedly due to her posts in regards to the Israel-Hamas struggle being deemed antisemitic.

Soon after, it was introduced that Ortega, who performed Barrera’s youthful sister Tara in Scream (2022) and Scream VI, would additionally not return for Scream 7 due to scheduling conflicts for the following season of the Netflix hit sequence Wednesday.

Then, in December, Landon revealed that he’d additionally left the mission, telling social media followers that it had been “a dream job that turned into a nightmare”.

Scream 7 can be directed by the franchise’s creator and author, Kevin Williamson.