While both Sidney and Gale Weathers (Courtney Cox) made it out of the movie alive, there will be no Sidney in Scream 6 with the franchise finally having to move on from its iconic final girl. RELATED: How Did Kirby Survive Scream 4?!
Now that Scream 7 is confirmed to be in the works with a new director attached, it's possible that Sidney Prescott could return. However, the damage has already been done. It would be challenging to organically reintroduce Sidney into Scream; however, there's scope for a different legacy character comeback.
Melissa Barrera has been fired from Scream 7, and Jenna Ortega has also left the project, leading the creative team behind the project to change the story they had planned – but with them gone, Scream 7 can now see the return of the franchise's original Final Girl, Sidney Prescott.
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.
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With both Barrera and Ortega out, Spyglass has effectively lost the core of its rebooted Scream franchise, as the two stars have been integral to both its plot and success. Storywise, Barrera and Ortega play two sisters — Sam and Tara Carpenter — who are connected to the original Woodsboro murders.
Scream VI has been released – but, sadly for fans, it's the first one without Neve Campbell. Campbell, who had played Sidney Prescott in every Scream film to date, announced in June 2021 she had quit the sixth instalment as she wasn't getting paid what she thought she deserved.
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.
The actress announced in a statement last June that she would not appear in Scream VI due to a salary dispute. "Sadly, I won't be making the next Scream film," Campbell said. "As a woman, I have had to work extremely hard in my career to establish my value, especially when it comes to Scream.
The killers that target Sidney have varying motivations ranging from revenge in Scream, Scream 2, and Scream 3 to the fame that will come from killing her in Scream 4, due to the fame she herself has obtained as a survivor of the murder spree in the original 3 films.
Sidney isn't killed off, as she is still married with three children following her move from Woodsboro at the end of Scream 4. Although the events of 2022's Scream allowed Sidney to reunite with both Gale and Dewey, she doesn't stay in Woodsboro for much longer.
Additionally, Patrick Dempsey as Det. Mark Kincaid and Courtney Cox as Gale Weathers are also planned for Scream 7. Neve Campbell left the cast of Scream 6 over salary negotiations.
When Gale thought she was dying, she told Sam to relay a message to Sidney Prescott: “He didn't get me. Tell Sidney he never got me.” Even if Gale had been killed by Scream 6's Ghostface, she didn't want Sidney to think that she had let the killer actually get her.
Popular on Variety. David Arquette admits seeing “Scream 6” wasn't easy after his beloved Dewey character was killed off in the fifth installment of the horror franchise. “It was hard for me to do it, but I also knew I wanted to see it,” the actor told me Thursday at the premiere of his new Peacock series, “Mrs.
After appearing as Sidney in Scream 5, Neve Campbell announced in June 2022 that she turned down an offer to return for Scream 6. According to Campbell, the offer made to her was far too low, saying, "As a woman, I have had to work extremely hard in my career to establish my value, especially when it comes to Scream.
Then once he killed Tatum, he took off the Ghostface costume, hid it somewhere, and made his way outside around the house and showed up at the front door to make it look like he just arrived to the party not to mention the menacing double-eyebrow raise he gave Stu to let him know that Tatum was already dead.
The film has now, without a shadow of a doubt, confirmed that Stu is believed to be dead in-universe. That means the only way he could be alive is to have faked his death and be hidden away. Now, Scream certainly has soap opera sensibilities, but come on.
Why did Billy stab Stu? Billy and Stu begin to stab each other to make themselves look like the victims of their scapegoat. Stu claims that after watching several horror films, they know how to frame and get away with murder.
Anika's ladder death in Scream 6 will be remembered as one of the most memorable deaths in the franchise due to its graphic violence and emotional impact, as she was killed by her supposed friend. The three Ghostface killers in Scream 6 went to great lengths to hide their true identities, even faking Quinn's death.
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.
According to Deadline Hollywood, which first reported the news, Ortega's exit is due to a scheduling conflict with the second season of her Netflix series Wednesday and was discussed months ago, before the recently resolved actors' strike.
Indeed, Wednesday star Jenna Ortega has exited the upcoming Scream 7 due to her shooting schedule on the second season of the exec-produced Tim Burton series – confirmed by Deadline, who broke the news.
The film was a big success, and Scream 7 was subsequently confirmed. It was recently revealed, however, that Barrera has been fired from the sequel due to inflammatory tweets, with a follow-up report revealing that Ortega departed the project as well due to scheduling conflicts with Wednesday.
