The lynchpin of whether Scream 4 will get off the ground or not is truly the pending return of Wes Craven, who made the series work in the first place.

Writer Kevin Williamson says  “there are a lot of twists and turns” in the upcoming Scream 4. Twists that may potentially include the killing off of Neve Campbell’s Sidney Prescott.
In a recent interview with PopWrap, Williamson refused to confirm whether or not the main character will be dead, but he did not rule out the [...]

“We are going to be doing Scream 4,” Arquette told E! Online. “Kevin Williamson is writing the script at this moment, and hopefully Wes Craven is going to direct.”
David Arquette and his lovely wife, dancin’ Courteney Cox Arquette, are confirmed for a another installment of the Scream series.
Planned as a new trilogy, the next Scream [...]