“The idea of making these films without Wes Craven seemed challenging to me. “I genuinely was in two minds,” Campbell told Entertainment Weekly. Longtime “Scream” queen Campbell opened up about her initial apprehension to return to the iconic Woodsboro after Craven’s passing. The fifth film is helmed by “ Ready or Not ” co-directors Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett, with a script penned by “Zodiac” writers James Vanderbilt and Guy Busick.
This will be the first follow-up that Craven has not directed as the auteur died in 2015. Now, a decade after “ Scre4m” premiered, and six years following the debut of the MTV spinoff “ Scream” series, “ Scream 5” is finally arriving on January 14, 2022. Emma Roberts, Rory Culkin, Adam Brody, Alison Brie, Hayden Panettiere, Liev Schrieber, Jada Pinkett Smith, Heather Graham, and Kristen Bell have also all come face-to-face with the Ghostface Killer onscreen. Original leads Campbell, David Arquette as gullible cop Dewey Riley, and Courteney Cox as reporter Gail Weathers have appeared in the whole franchise, spanning two decades. The Ghostface Killer may have many identities across the four installments, with a fifth on the horizon for a January 2022 release, but one thing always stays the same: Sid relives her trauma, and fights back. Plus, “ Scream” crafted a new era of the final girl with Sidney Prescott (Neve Campbell). Twelve years later, Craven did the unthinkable and made a referential teen thriller sprinkled with references to horror movie “rules,” the modern-day media circus surrounding all things morbid, and subverted casting expectations. So what better director to mock the very genre he helped usher in? Craven was the mastermind behind hit films like “The Last House on the Left” (1972) and “The Hills Have Eyes” (1977), before embarking on one of the most creative slasher franchises of all-time, “ Nightmare on Elm Street” (1984). Do you like scary movies? That line at the start of “Scream” (1996) had instant meta connotations, coming as it did in a movie directed by horror master Wes Craven, who all but invented the modern scary movie.
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