After her character survived in Scream 6, it was also rumored that Courteney Cox would return as Gale Weathers. In March 2024, Neve Campbell announced she would be reprising her role as Sidney Prescott for the new movie.
Williamson has since weighed in on the Stu Macher is still alive debate, confirming that he is very much dead. Despite being an executive producer on the last two movies, Williamson hasn't written a movie in the franchise since the underrated Scream 4.
Billy Loomis returned in Scream (2022) and Scream 6 because he is Sam Carpenter's father and she is working through the trauma that she feels about her family.
After the guests leave, Stu and Billy reveal their plan to Sidney, including how they are going to frame her father, Neil Prescott. Billy and Stu begin to stab each other to make themselves look like the victims of their scapegoat.
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Did Billy ever love Sidney?
It is revealed that Billy held hatred inside for Sidney, but stayed in the relationship to stay close to her to execute his plan of revenge for his mother abandoning him. Meanwhile, he cheated on Sidney with other girls at and around school.
Kirby appears again in Scream VI, now an FBI special agent and living in Atlanta. She works alongside Detective Bailey to investigate the latest attacks made by the Ghostface killer, acknowledging her previous attack by Charlie Walker in 2011.
Courteney Cox is full of praise for new Scream directors Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett — but she did have one quibble with the franchise's latest film: the decision to definitively kill off the character of Dewey Riley, the now ex-cop portrayed by Cox's real-life former husband David Arquette.
In Scream (2022), the killers are revealed to be horror fans Amber Freeman (Mikey Madison) and Richie Kirsch (Jack Quaid) who, dissatisfied with what Stab (a slasher film series based on previous Ghostface killings) has become, decide to make their own new "source material" for it with their own killings, meaning to ...
Scream 6 introduced five killers, the most in any Scream film, who were not working together. Their identities were revealed early on, breaking convention. Detective Bailey, Quinn Bailey, and Ethan Landry were revealed as the killers at the end of Scream 6. Their motive was revenge for Detective Bailey's son's death.
Guy Busick, who co-wrote the previous two movies, will handle the writing on Scream 7. While so much of this feels like a franchise reboot, with two of the original key players returning to the franchise, it's highly unclear what this new movie might be about.
Sadly, these exciting plans for Sam won't ever come to fruition, after she was fired from Scream 7 for her pro-Palestine sentiments on Instagram. There were hints of the darkness that lied within Sam's character, with her links to Billy Loomis being something Scream 7 could've explored even further.
At the time of writing, the only confirmed character in Scream 7 is Sidney Prescott, but Gale is rumored to be returning as well, along with Mark Kincaid.
Kirby was tricked by Charlie and Jill into believing Charlie was in trouble, and when she helped him, he stabbed her – and for all she knew, Charlie was the only Ghostface.
It was then reported that Jenna Ortega won't be in "Scream 7" because of "Wednesday" season two. Variety reported Ortega won't take part due to scheduling conflicts with the second season of Netflix's huge hit "Wednesday."
Horror film fanatics rejoice: Neve Campbell is coming back to the "Scream" franchise. On Tuesday, Campbell posted a picture to her verified Instagram showing the title page of a script for an "Untitled Scream 7" film, writing in the caption, "Sidney Prescott is coming back!"
While he penned a handful of the other films, Williamson will not be the writer for Scream 7, instead passing the torch to Guy Busick, who previously worked alongside ex-franchise directors Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett on Scream (2022) and Scream VI.
This was confirmed by Bettinelli-Olpin in a January 2022 interview. Campbell admitted to being unaware that the husband named Mark was actually Dempsey's character. The fifth film reveals Sidney became a mother of three children between the events of the fourth and fifth films, set ten years apart.
Not that Sidney Prescott (Neve Campbell) was very pleased to find out that the guy she'd lost her virginity to - Billy - mere minutes prior was a serial killer.
In Scream 2, Billy's mother became Ghostface as she sought revenge on Sidney for killing Billy. Later on, Scream (2022) revealed that Billy apparently cheated on Sidney shortly before the original kill spree and unknowingly had a daughter, Sam Carpenter.
