Neve Campbell to Return for Scream 4

Entertainment September 25, 2009 AT 5:12PM
Neve Campbell to Return for Scream 4 Credit: Samir Hussein/Getty Images

Neve Campbell is set to Scream again!

According to a Variety report Friday, the actress, 35, just inked a deal to return in the lead role of the horror film franchise for its fourth installment, to begin filming next spring.

Campbell joins previously confirmed cast members David Arquette and Courteney Cox-Arquette, who are reprising their roles as Dewey Riley and Gale Weathers.

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Despite rumors earlier this year that Cambell would not reprise her role and that her character would be killed off, Arquette held out hope for her return.

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"I would love for her to come back, it'd be a bummer if she doesn't. But I also understand people's decisions," Arquette told RadarOnline.com.

The Scream trilogy has grossed more than $200 million to date.

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  • November 07, 2010 - 2:47pm Wesley Harris

    i am so glad and by the way neve campbell is the best. sidney prscott is the best character there is besides scream.i bet this one is going to be good

  • June 07, 2010 - 11:09am SCREAMFREAK

    Neve Campbell wil hopefully be in scream 4, i'm obsessed with all the scream movies and a scream movie is not a scream movie if she is not in it!!!! if were lucky the whole original cast will be in this movie! if she isnt in this movie the movie will be crap!!! And billy nshould make a comeback and be in this movie as well !!!

  • March 24, 2010 - 12:14am holly

    I love scream to death keep it going...

  • March 24, 2010 - 12:13am holly

    They are all good movies they are the best movie in the world.Scream is the best movie ever.... i love the movie to death.thank u for listening.I love scream movies ... dont let sidney die..

  • March 24, 2010 - 12:11am holly

    im so happy that ur doing a fourth one. But how are u going to make it work. What i think is that sidney shouldnt die beacuse she is the main chararcter. That how are u supposed to bring back billy and stew when they died in the first on.What i think is that u should like have them just comeback in a way that isnt confuseing. Im so happy to talk to you guses. It was nice to talk. But u can let stew and billy comeback.But dont let sidney die.have billy and stew survie some how.But say hey to the cast for me.But thanks for talking to me.

  • December 15, 2009 - 1:38pm Anonymous

    Neve Campbell is hot as hell, are you guys crazy! yeah this pic isn't the greatest one of her, but give her a google image search before you judge her too quickly. underrated in my books!

  • November 01, 2009 - 3:28pm ANONYMOUS

    i love all the scream movies especially the 1st i think this will be good i think they should kill at least one of the 3 off

  • October 03, 2009 - 11:26pm Anonymous

    WHY?

  • September 29, 2009 - 7:48pm Anonymous

    kevin williamson and wes craven are starting a new trilogy....i wonder if Neve's gonna be in all 3????

  • September 28, 2009 - 4:47am Anonymous

    Neve has agreed to come back because they are finally tying up all the storylines in this next film. One recurring theme in every chapter of Scream was motherhood, (Sidney’s mother, Billy’s mother, Sidney’s half-brother’s lack of a mother) and finally Sidney will be facing her worst threat yet while trying to rescue the closest person to her heart..her daughter. The first scene in the 4th film has been said to involve a babysitter watching a girl and being hunted by the new killer, and the parents coming home just in time to save their daughter. The mother being revealed as Sidney herself. The film will take place in a gated community in southern California, with the new killer hunting down Sidney’s family and her surrounding housewife/family neighbors. Gale and Dewey have obviously married but are sticking to the ‘motherhood’ theme as well…they are having a tremendous struggle bearing children. Gale has fears that she is barren, and attaches herself to Sidney’s young daughter strongly because of this. *SPOILERS* The killer is also being talked about as a mother herself. Yes a woman! In the beginning there is a flashback scene involving Sidney in a nasty car accident while she was pregnant and she has recurring dreams about this as it was the biggest threat against her then unborn daughter. At the end of the film, the killer is revealed to be one of the housewife neighbors that is one of the many new characters that are introduced in the film. This ‘housewife’ has been carefully planning her attack ever since Sidney hit HER in the car accident. She was pregnant as well..and the crash killed her unborn child. Unable to conceive as a result of this, she makes it her vendetta to take from Sidney what she rightfully deserves. A daughter of her very own.

  • September 27, 2009 - 1:51pm Anonymous

    She has the worst ass in Hollywood! (Looks like a dartboard)

  • September 27, 2009 - 12:56pm Anonymous

    She has got to be one of the strangest looking women in Hollywood. Her face is so.. harsh I guess, just unattractive. Years ago, I thought it would help if she thinned her bushy eye brows, but she has done that and she is still harsh looking.

  • September 26, 2009 - 11:20pm annie2

    I kinda think Neve's doing this for the money, too, sort of like Heather Locklear going back to Melrose. I like both of these ladies and am happy they are doing it just to see them on-screen again. We all have taken jobs for the money sometimes and as you age in Hollywood it only gets harder for screen time I am sure.

  • September 26, 2009 - 7:13pm Lynn

    i love the scream movies, ihave all 3 and still watch them, and i am so excited that neve campbell and david and courtney cox arquette are going to be in them, i will definetly watch, but i hope that dewey is not the killer, wow i think i am going to go watch scream again now...LOL

  • September 26, 2009 - 6:20pm Anonymous

    I CAN"T WAIT FOR SCREAM 4!!! YEAHHHH AND PLEASE DON"T MAKE DEWEY THE KILLER. I thought it was him the first three movies.

  • September 26, 2009 - 10:57am Anonymous

    I always thought they would make another Scream years later too. The 1st and 3rd Scream are the best, I hope this one is gonna be better than the 2nd one. PLEASE DON'T KILL DEWEY!!!!

  • September 26, 2009 - 8:54am Lisa

    I have always said that if there was ever a 4th Scream made then it should be years later and Sydney would go insane and SHE should be the killer and Dewey has to kill her in the end.

  • September 26, 2009 - 2:20am Anonymous

    Isn't it a little too freakin late to make another Scream movie??? I mean, the first and second were the best, and the third one was just dumb. And who's gonna be the killer, the grandson of the crazy mom killer from Scream 3??

  • September 26, 2009 - 2:20am Anonymous

    Isn't it a little too freakin late to make another Scream movie??? I mean, the first and second were the best, and the third one was just dumb. And who's gonna be the killer, the grandson of the crazy mom killer from Scream 3??

  • September 26, 2009 - 1:42am Anonymous

    Neve is doing it because her career is in the dumpster and she needs the money. The 3rd installment of this franchise sucked why would we want a 4th?

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