Neve Campbell's Scream 6 Exit Is Actually Good For The Sequel
Sidney Prescott actress Neve Campbell sadly isn’t returning for Scream 6, but this actually presents the franchise sequel with a crucial opportunity. Following the critical and box office success of Scream (2022), the franchise is coming back for another horror meta-sequel in 2023. However, this time the battle against Ghostface won’t be supported by the seemingly immortal Sidney Prescott, which marks the first time Neve Campbell’s character will be missing from the Scream franchise.
Premiering over a decade after Scream 4 (2011), Scream 5 revived the franchise following the passing of iconic director Wes Craven. The “re-quel,” as it’s referred to within the film, followed a group of Woodsboro teens who were now the targets of a new wave of Ghostface killings, with the common underlying factor of the victims being their relations to the original 1996 murder spree. Paying tribute to Scream’s legacy characters, new final girl Sam Carpenter is revealed to be the daughter of Ghostface killer Billy Loomis, Mindy and Chad Meeks-Martin are the niece and nephew of horror expert Randy Meeks, and Wes Hicks is the son is Scream 4’s Judy Hicks. Before the identities of the Ghostfaces are revealed, the teens are assisted by Scream icons Sidney Prescott, Gale Weathers, and Dewey Riley.
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Paramount quickly greenlit Scream 6 after the 2022 sequel’s success, gradually revealing that several survivors would be returning for another Ghostface killing spree. When Scream 6 premieres in March 2023, Gale Weathers, Kirby Reed, Sam Carpenter, Tara Carpenter, and the Meeks-Martin twins will be back as they grieve their friends and try to begin normal lives after the most
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