The 2023 film saw longtime lead Neve Campbell sit out after “the offer that was presented to me did not equate to the value I have brought to the franchise,” she said at the time; now she is back, after noting that she was “really grateful that the studio heard me when I talked about pay discrepancy.”
However, Melissa Barrera and Jenna Ortega, who starred in the fifth and six movies, have not returned, as Barrera was fired for posts about the Gaza war that Spyglass, the company behind the Scream franchise, deemed as antisemitic. Ortega and director Christopher Landon departed shortly after. (In response to that firing, pro-Palestine protesters marched outside of the L.A. premiere on Wednesday.)
That meant a big pivot, as the films had been based heavily around those two younger stars. Cue Kevin Williamson, who wrote…
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