Neve Campbell and  Kevin Williamson on ‘Scream 7’ Neve Campbell, the series’ original “final girl,” is reuniting with Kevin Williamson, the writer who launched the Scream franchise alongside director Wes Craven in 1996.  With Williamson now stepping in to direct Scream 7, both he and Campbell are determined to return the story to the suspense-driven horror that defined the beginning of the franchise. In Ashley Cullins’ new book Your Favorite Scary Movie: How the Scream Films Rewrote the Rules of Horror, Williamson revealed how the idea came together. “Neve wants to go back to the first one and find the suspense and really concentrate on scary and not bloody,” he explained in an excerpt shared by Bloody Disgusting.