Neve Campbell confirms she may return for 'Scream 5'

It’s been 22 years since the Scream franchise began terrorizing movie fans and Jiffy Pop has never been the same. Writer Kevin Williamson’s smart, dramatic and funny film about teen killers debuted in 1996 with a cast that was led by actor Neve Campbell. The success of the first film led to three more instalments in the franchise, including Scream 4 in 2011. Visionary director Wes Craven, who was behind the camera for all four films, passed away in 2015, but it appears as though a fifth film may still be on the table.Campbell was interviewed on Wednesday by horror movie website Bloody Disgusting’s Jake Hamilton and discussed the possibility of returning for Scream 5. “They’ve come to me and we’re having conversations,” said Campbell. “It’s a little hard at the moment because of COVID to know when that’ll happen and hopefully we can see eye to eye on all the elements that have to come into place for it to happen.”The Canadian actor said that her initial reluctance to reprise her role as Sidney Prescott came from the passing of Craven. “I originally had been really apprehensive about doing another Scream without Wes because he was such a genius and he is the reason they are what they are but the directors have come to me with such a great appreciation for Wes’s work and they really want to honor it and that meant a lot to me,” said Campbell. “Hopefully we’ll be able to do it.”

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Scream isn’t the only major project from the early years of Campbell’s career that she’s interested in revisiting. During a 2018 appearance on Watch What Happens Live, the actor was asked her thoughts on the reboot for Party of Five. “I love the idea of the reboot because it’s very timely,” said Campbell, who starred as Julia Salinger for all six seasons of the family drama, from 1994 until 2000. The new reboot debuted earlier this year and centres around a Mexican American family whose parents are deported, leaving the children to raise each other. “If they want me to come and support somehow and do a scene in it, I probably would.”Following the massive success of the Scream movies, Campbell took a break from Hollywood and moved to the UK. Appearing on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert in 2018, Campbell explained her decision to step away at the height of her career.“I needed a minute,” said Campbell, who confirmed that she was able to have the anonymity in London that Hollywood didn’t offer. “In my 20s, it all hit so fast and so big that it was a little overwhelming. Wonderful, obviously, and I’m very grateful for it, but it got to a level, also, where the kinds of things that I was being offered were not the things I wanted to do. I was constantly being offered horror films, because I was known for horror films, or bad romantic comedies. I just wasn’t interested in the scripts and I was feeling a bit unhappy with the things that were coming to me and I was feeling a little bored of the whole thing and I thought, ‘I want a change.'”Campbell has since returned to Hollywood and achieved the difficult balance of booking blockbuster films and critically acclaimed TV series. The Guelph, Ontario native starred in House of Cards and the action film Skyscraper opposite Dwayne Johnson.[video_embed id='1953469']Before you go: NASA confirms Tom Cruise movie shooting in outer space[/video_embed]