Scream6 co-director Tyler Gillett reveals a surprise upside to the absence of Neve Campbell's Sidney Prescott in the latest slasher film: 'We love Neve... but it felt like there's an opportunity to really dig into this new crop of characters...'
Tyler Gillett, part of the directorial duo behind the upcoming Scream VI, reveals the unexpected upside of Neve Campbell’s departure from the beloved slasher series. Plans for a sixth film in the long-running horror franchise were officially greenlit in February this year, just weeks after the hugely successful debut of the series’ fifth film, Scream.
SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY Despite Campbell’s dramatic exit from the series, production on the sixth film forged ahead without her. As such, Scream VI is now set to be the first in the franchise that will not feature her character, Sidney Prescott. More recently, off the back of a new teaser trailer, Gillett and his directing partner Matt Bettinelli-Olpin spoke with Entertainment Weekly about what fans can expect from the return of Ghostface and the impact of Campbell’s absence from the film.
We love Neve, and we're huge fans of Sidney Prescott, but it felt like there's an opportunity to really dig into this new crop of characters, and I think people will be really surprised and pleased with how successfully this movie does that. This movie's been in our lives now for quite a while, but I think that we are still consistently surprised by how rich and how interesting and deep the relationship is between the four of them in this movie.
While Gillett seems confident that the new film will succeed without Sidney, it has previously been suggested that the film’s writers were initially counting on her character’s return. Following Campbell’s swift departure, Scream VI’s creative team needed to rapidly retool their plans to account for her character’s absence and shift the focus back onto the newer characters.
Of course, while long-term franchise fans may mourn Sidney’s absence, Scream VI will not be without its fair share of throwbacks to the original films. Besides Cox returning once more as her recurring character Gale Weathers, Hayden Panettiere is also reprising her role as Kirby Reed from 2011’s Scream 4. Moreover, Barrera’s Sam Carpenter has the ultimate connection to the original film, being the illegitimate daughter of the original killer Billy Loomis.
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