Which cast members are coming back for Scream 6? Jenna Ortega and Melissa Barrera are resuming their roles as onscreen sisters Sam and Tara Carpenter. Courtney Cox — who has appeared in all six installments of the Scream franchise — is also returning as news reporter Gale Weathers.
For a little while, it seems like Ghostface has succeeded in killing another character in Scream 6. Sam and Tara are scared, horrified, and worried that Gale is gone. Thankfully, Gale survives, although of course now she has even more trauma to work through after dealing with Ghostface yet another time.
Gale Weathers survived Ghostface again in Scream 6, but Gale's death actually would have made the film better. Gale is the only current character who has been around for every single Ghostface killing.
It's also highly likely that we'll be seeing Courteney Cox back as Gale Weathers. The Friends star has appeared in every Scream film in the franchise, and she survived the events of the sixth movie. The latter is true for Hayden Panettiere's Kirby Reed too, who first encountered Ghostface in 2011's Scream 4.
Scream 7 is officially happening, but fans have been stunned by two unexpected exits from the new movie. Both Melissa Barrera and Jenna Ortega, who played sisters Sam and Tara Carpenter in Scream (2022) and Scream VI, won't be returning for the new movie.
Gale Weathers appears in the Scream films as an ambitious, strong-willed journalist and writer who is initially built up as an antagonist, but ultimately joins forces with Sidney Prescott (Neve Campbell) and Dewey Riley (David Arquette), the latter of whom she eventually falls in love with and marries, in order to ...
Sam Will Be Ghostface In Scream 7 One thing the Scream franchise has never done is have a final girl as the Ghostface killer. However, Sam's story is different.
Fans of the slasher franchise Scream will be excited to know that post the success of Scream VI in 2023, the series will return with Scream 7 soon. The release date for Scream 7 will be sometime at the end of 2024 or the beginning of 2025.
Unfortunately for Scream franchise fans that may want to see Stu Macher make a comeback, Scream 6 has fairly definitively laid the theories to rest by confirming his death. There is a lingering shot in the film that shows Stu Macher's photo and confirms that he died in 1996.
And although there are some incredibly gruesome kills scattered throughout the movie, Sam and Tara make it out alive, along with Chad (Mason Gooding) and Mindy Meeks-Martin (Jasmin Savoy Brown).
Campbell hasn't ultimately said goodbye to Sidney and the Scream movies, so if the studio agrees to pay her fairly, it's likely she would return as a character for Scream 7. New characters might be at the center of the current Scream story, but Campbell will always be the face of the franchise.
An Easter egg in the fifth film, 2022's Scream, revealed that Kirby did survive. A call from Panettiere to the franchise's current creative team (known as Radio Silence) was enough to clinch her reappearance for Scream VI, which finds Kirby as an FBI agent who comes to New York City following another Ghostface attack.
The three Ghostface killers in Scream 6 went to great lengths to hide their true identities, even faking Quinn's death. Anika became a victim during an attack where Ethan was revealed as the killer.
Dewey was born in 1971, and he is 25 years old in the original film (as he tells Gale when they first meet). Gale Weathers was born in 1964; she is 32 at the time of the original Woodsboro murders. Conveniently, both Courteney Cox and David Arquette's characters share the same birth years as the actors themselves.
The shocking reveal at the end of Scream shows that the killers are Tara's best friend Amber and Sam's boyfriend, Richie. They were both motivated to kill to continue the Stab franchise (the horror franchise within Scream replicating the film).
Consumed by his grief and convinced Kirby is lying, Detective Bailey shoots the FBI agent. That's all a ruse, as Bailey is the mastermind behind the latest Ghostface attacks. And for the first time in the franchise, there are three killers around. Bailey, Ethan, and Quinn—who is alive after all.
Scream 7 may add in the craziest twist of all by making Scream's final girl Sam Carpenter the Ghostface killer. The Scream franchise has had a lot of shocking Ghostface killers, though Sam would be the most jaw-dropping.
Despite many altercations with various Ghostfaces over the years, Gale has never actually received one of Ghostface's iconic phone calls. This changes when Ghostface finally calls Gale in Scream 6.
The relationship between the two stars has been quite a roller coaster ride, echoing that of their characters. They met filming the first movie, were in a relationship by the second one and by the time the third -- which ended with Gale and Dewey getting engaged -- was released, they were married in real life.
Portrayed by. Sidney Prescott is the Final Girl of the Scream franchise. She survived the murdering sprees of Ghostface and his copycats, while also single handedly stopping the killers. She is portrayed by Canadian actress Neve Campbell.
At the end of Scream 6, she hides a Ghostface mask in her jacket and stares at it as if she's about to cave in and follow in her father's footsteps. However, she stops herself and throws the mask to the ground. This doesn't mean her decision is final, though. Sam could turn evil and become Scream's Ghostface.
This article contains major Spoilers for Scream 6! Scream 6 introduces a major romance between Tara (Jenna Ortega) and Chad (Mason Gooding), which fixes the Scream franchise's problems with its legacy characters' relationships.
