Sidney Prescott is back on the Scream scene – and so is Kevin Williamson.

Neve Campbell will headline the seventh installment in the self-aware horror franchise, which was originally to star Jenna Ortega and Melissa Barrera. Barrera was dismissed for posting her political views online and Ortega exited the project soon after, leaving its future in doubt.

Campbell will return to the role of Sidney Prescott, which she originated in 1996’s Scream, the first movie in the series.

“Sidney Prescott is coming back!!!! It’s always been such a blast and an honor to get to play Sidney in the ‘Scream’ movies,” Campbell posted on Instagram. “My appreciation for these films and for what they have meant to me, has never waned. I’m very happy and proud to say I’ve been asked, in the most respectful way, to bring Sidney back to the screen and I couldn’t be more thrilled!!!”

There are new (and old) names behind the scenes of the film as well. Kevin Williamson, who wrote the first, second and fourth installments, will be directing, taking over from Christopher Landon, who left amid the casting chaos. Guy Busick is now writing the script, after James Vanderbilt, his co-writer on the last two Scream films, bowed out to shoot a film Nuremberg, on location.

Radio Silence (the team of directors Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett and producer Chad Villella) are still on board as executive producers. 

In other casting news, recent Oscar winner Emma Stone, along with Pedro Pascal, Joaquim Phoenix, Austin Butler and more will star in director Ari Aster’s new film Eddington for A24. Production began this week.

Eddington is being described as a Western, though no plot details are known. Aster is directing from the script he wrote, and will be producing the film with Lars Knudsen.

The cast will also include Luke Grimes, Deirdre O’Connell, Micheal Ward, and Clifton Collins Jr.

Aster, of course, is the director of some of A24’s most unsettling films, like Hereditary and Midsummer, as well as last year’s Dream Scenario, which starred Nicolas Cage. Aster also directed Phoenix in 2023’s Beau is Afraid for A24.