How theScream VIfilmmakers dealt with the absence of Neve Campbell's Sidney Prescott

Warning: Thisarticles contain spoilers forScream VI.

“She’s taking Mark and the kids somewhere safe,” Weathers says in the film.

“She deserves to have a happy ending.”

Neve Campbell (“Sidney Prescott”), left, and Courteney Cox (“Gale Weathers”) star in Paramount Pictures and Spyglass Media Group’s “Scream."

Neve Campbell in ‘Scream’ (2022).Paramount Pictures

So why did the filmmakers decide to namecheck the character in this fashion?

And the way that it’s dealt with in the movie felt right to us.”

Campbell played Prescott in the first five Scream movies.

The actressannounced in a statement last June that she would not appear inScream VIdue to a salary dispute.

“Sadly, I won’t be making the nextScreamfilm,” Campbell said.

“To all myScreamfans, I love you,” she continued.

“You’ve always been so incredibly supportive to me.

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