Scream 5 Unlikely to Happen Without Wes Craven as Director

Screamfranchise star Neve Campbell is n’t hop out much hope for a fifth film , now that fabled horror director Wes Craven has passed away . In the annals of repugnance account , few music director have managed to charm the genre to the point Craven did . Craven also stayed a striking horror figure for multiple decades , first terrifying audience in the LXX with grindhouse chillersThe Last House on The LeftandThe Hills Have Eyes , before reviving the already begin to ebbing 80s slasher movement with 1984 ’s fiercely creativeA Nightmare on Elm Street .

While forge iconic horror boogeyman Freddy Krueger might ultimately go down as Craven ’s greatest genre achievement , arguably right up there with Springwood ’s dream demon in notoriety is the theatre director ’s work on theScreamfranchise . The slasher subgenre was all but completely all in by 1996 , andScreamwas exactly what it needed to rise from the grave . lay out a fresh take on all the previous slasher tropes - while also work fun of them -Screamprovided a twisty murder mystery that hearing consume up in drove .

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As with many revulsion franchises , sequelsScream 2,Scream 3,andScream 4never manage to hit the top of the original , but unlike most franchises , Craven return to direct each and every installment . This lent the serial a coherent tone and style , and prevented the franchise from ever hitting the scummy points of cockeyed slasher sequels likeFreddy ’s Dead : The Final Nightmare , andFriday the 13th Part VIII : Jason Takes Manhattan . So , will fans ever get aScream 5?While out promoting new action mechanism flickSkyscraper , Neve " Sidney Prescott " Campbell was asked to weigh in on that very subject byKinowetter , and answer that she doubts another sequel will ever happen , due to the fact that Craven is no longer among the livelihood .

Craven pass away on August 30 , 2015 , at the age of 76,after a conflict with brain cancer . He continued work the right way up until the goal , havingseveral projects in growth at the time of his death . Jill Blotevogel - showrunner for season 1 of MTV’sScreamTV series - even remarked after Craven ’s pass that the writer / director had given her notes on the pilot , which air just a yoke calendar month prior to his decease . Craven clear continued to care aboutScreamlong afterScream 4released in 2011 , and as Campbell remarked in the interview cite above , was go steady as the primary driving force behind the film enfranchisement .

In theory , the story of surviving characters Sidney , Gale Weathers ( Courtney Cox ) , and Dwight " Dewey " Riley ( David Arquette ) does n’t inevitably require Craven ’s input to proceed , as unlike with many ofthe music director ’s other film , he did n’t indite the hand for theScreamseries . Kevin Williamson wroteScreams 1 , 2,and4,while Ehren Kruger stepped in to write3.Still , with how creatively implemental Craven indeed was to the franchise , it ’s quite likely that Williamson , Campbell , Cox , and Arquette plainly have no desire to try and make another entry without their guiding light in tow . That said , it may just be a subject of clip until Hollywood resolve to make a theatrical reboot of the property without them .