Neve Campbell Says Wes Craven Will Be Returning for Scream 4

[AristotleP]

November 24, 2009
by Ethan Anderton


These days franchises are getting rebooted and remade left and right, but for one particular popular horror franchise, it's going to pick up right where it left off. We've known about a Scream 4 (and a potential new trilogy) for quite some time now (hell, there's even a teaser poster out there despite still having no script out to actors), as well as the return of franchise veterans Neve Campbell, Courtney Cox, David Arquette, and writer Kevin Williamson. In a new interview with Campbell on Black Book (via SlashFilm), she reveals that director Wes Craven is pretty much attached to revisit the Ghostface Killer in this fourthcoming sequel.

Campbell said: "I’m pretty sure at this stage that Wes [Craven] is back on board to direct and Kevin [Willamson] is definitely writing it…so it is going to be great."

Her being pretty sure could just be conjecture at this point. Though if anybody would know, it' probably be Campbell or one of the other principal returning cast members. Honestly, this is one of the deal-breakers to maintain my interest in revisiting the franchise. Though these slasher films always had a certain tongue-in-cheek element to them, it started getting ridiculous towards the end of the trilogy and essentially became just like the horror films they were subtly roasting. Of course that downhill run was under the helm of Wes Craven, but there's a chance he's got a fresh approach to a new trilogy. We'll see what happens, but for now I'll remain cautiously optimistic. Does Craven's return make or break your interest in this sequel as well?

Firstshowing

[Sheridan Passell]

On a personal note, this is probably the film I'm looking forward to most in 2011.

[Sheridan Passell]

Just found out that Neve Campbell has been living in Islington for the past 5 years. Weird.

[twaddington]

Oh really, I think she is married to someone English. Maybe we can get her to be in the bear movie, I haven't quite worked out the details of how we will persuade her though.

[dalmatianjaws]

How about, "Hey, at least it's not Scream 4."

[twaddington]

Haha, ok good idea. We'll call it
1. operation "HEY, AT LEAST IT'S NOT SCREAM 4"

I've got a couple of backup plans in case the first one doesn't work,  both inspired by film and TV.

2. Operation BOWFINGER.. she will be part of the film without even knowing it, this one is hard to pull off and probably illegal.

3. Operation HOMER GOES TO COLLEGE... based on the episode of The Simpsons where Homer tries to get the nerds back into college after having been expelled for a prank gone bad. To do this, he manufactures a situation where they can save the deans life. We will do the same, one of us drives the car and another grabs her out the way just in time. It requires careful planning and timing but if pulled off correctly Neve will definitely owe us. This one is even harder to pull off and is definitely illegal.

[Sheridan Passell]

In order for us to be fully prepared, somebody has to watch all the movies she's made since Scream 3. Any takers?