‘Scream 7’: The Cast, Neve Campbell’s Future & Everything Else We Know So Far

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L-r, Melissa Barrera (“Sam Carpenter”) , Jenna Ortega (“Tara Carpenter”), Jasmin Savoy Brown (“Mindy Meeks-Martin”) and Mason Gooding (“Chad Meeks-Martin”) prima successful Paramount Pictures and Spyglass Media Group's "Scream VI."

Core Four forever! The emotion for Scream is bigger than ever. In its opening weekend, Scream 6 broke the franchise grounds by making $67 cardinal astatine the container office. Scream 6 was the 2nd movie featuring a caller procreation of stars, including Jenna Ortega, Melissa Barrera, Mason Gooding, and Jasmin Savoy Brown.

The hype implicit Scream is letting up, truthful what does this mean for Scream 7? It has to beryllium a definite thing, right? HollywoodLife is breaking down everything we cognize astir Scream 7.

Is There Going To Be A Seventh Scream Movie?

Scream 7 hasn’t been confirmed by Paramount yet. But with the numbers that Scream 6 is raking in, you tin beryllium assured that a seventh Scream movie is astir decidedly successful the cards.

ScreenRant is reporting that Scream 7 has been “greenlit” and is being “prepped to sprout this year. It looks similar the workplace hopes to person this movie changeable and released arsenic rapidly arsenic its predecessor.”

The fifth Scream movie was released successful January 2022. After it became a container bureau success, Scream 6 rapidly got the greenlight. The sixth Scream movie filmed rapidly took spot from June to August 2022. Given the ongoing popularity of Scream, it’s apt that Scream 7 volition travel this pattern.

Scream 7 Release Date

Since Scream 7 hasn’t been officially confirmed, there’s nary merchandise day yet for a seventh Scream movie. If the movie gets underway by the extremity of 2023, Scream 7 could easy beryllium released successful mid-2024. Fun fact: a Scream movie has ne'er been released successful the summer. Let’s alteration that!

Scream 7 Cast

Scream 7 would undoubtedly diagnostic the instrumentality of Scream’s “Core Four,” which includes Jenna Ortega arsenic Tara, Melissa Barrera arsenic Sam, Mason Gooding arsenic Chad, and Jasmin Savoy Brown arsenic Mindy. They each managed to past their latest circular with Ghostface.

Hayden Panettiere’s long-awaited instrumentality arsenic Kirby Reed paved the mode for much of the beloved quality successful the future. She was stabbed again by Ghostface, but she survived. She told Tara and Sam to telephone her if they “ever” needed anything.

Kirby was the cleanable span betwixt the archetypal bequest characters and the newbies. She besides formed a saccharine enslaved with Tara. Bring Kirby back, Scream 7!

Courteney Cox’s Gale Weathers besides survived different brutal onslaught by Ghostface. Courteney is the lone archetypal Scream quality to person appeared successful each 6 films truthful far. She would apt marque an quality successful a seventh installment.

Josh Segarra was introduced successful Scream 6 arsenic Danny Brackett, Sam’s caller emotion interest. If Sam and Danny enactment together, Josh would astir apt beryllium backmost successful Scream 7.

As with each erstwhile Scream films, a caller batch of supporting characters would beryllium introduced successful Scream 7. One oregon a fewer of them could beryllium the caller Ghostface!

Will Neve Campbell Return For Scream 7?

The Scream satellite was shocked successful June 2022 erstwhile Neve Campbell revealed that she would not beryllium returning arsenic Sidney Prescott successful Scream 6.

“Sadly, I won’t beryllium making the adjacent Scream film,” Neve said successful a statement. “As a woman, I person had to enactment highly hard successful my vocation to found my value, particularly erstwhile it comes to Scream. I felt the connection that was presented to maine did not equate to the worth I person brought to the franchise.”

Neve’s lack was felt successful Scream 6. She was mentioned concisely aft the latest acceptable of Ghostface attacks. Gale revealed that Sidney wouldn’t beryllium coming to New York. Sidney and Mark took their kids to a harmless spot to fell retired from Ghostface.

Sidney Prescott volition ever stay a halfway portion of the Scream world, but Neve’s determination to not travel backmost didn’t wholly alteration the communicative of Scream 6. “This was ever the communicative we wanted to tell, which is truly breathtaking we were capable to bash it,” writer James Vanderbilt told Variety. “The Sam and Tara sister communicative was ever the happening we wanted to beryllium beforehand and halfway successful this. We emotion Neve and deliberation she’s astonishing and had a large acquisition with her on [Scream] 5. She needs to bash what she needs to bash arsenic a concern pistillate and we wholly enactment that.”

Director Tyler Gillett added, “I deliberation what yet happened was we knew that if anything, successful the lack of that character, we had to truly excavation deeper into the halfway 4 and marque those relationships substance successful a truly affectional way. The extremity was to effort to signifier a transportation betwixt those characters and the assemblage the mode that we formed a transportation with Gale, Dewey, and Sid. At the extremity of the day, that’s conscionable astir having the clip and the existent property successful your communicative to truly excavation deep. But no, it wasn’t a wildly melodramatic pivot.”

Neve hasn’t ruled retired bringing Sidney backmost into the fold. “I don’t cognize that I’m done for good,” the histrion tells PEOPLE successful August 2022. “It would truly beryllium connected what they came to maine with next. It would person to beryllium different. It would person to beryllium a antithetic attitude, and I’m not definite that’s going to happen.”

The histrion continued, “If they came to maine with a fig that felt right, that felt respectful, that felt successful keeping with my worth that I brought to the franchise, I’d beryllium consenting to see [returning successful the future].”I don’t judge it’s dormant successful the water, but we’ll see. But honestly, I’m truly okay. I’ve been capable to fto it go. I privation them well. I’m doing 3 antithetic shows close now. I’m very, precise grateful that I’m working. I’m happy. So each is good.”

Is Stu Macher Alive?

That’s the million-dollar question. OG slayer Stu was seemingly killed successful the first Scream movie aft being stabbed and electrocuted erstwhile a tv falls connected his head. However, a legion of Scream fans are holding retired anticipation that Stu someway survived and has been surviving successful hiding for each this time.

Scream 5 featured Stu’s nephew briefly, but helium was killed rapidly by Ghostface. The large showdown went down astatine Stu Macher’s aged location conscionable similar successful the original.

Scream 6 straight referenced Stu Macher. At the Ghostface shrine warehouse, the Core Four and others came face-to-face with cardinal items from past killings, including the TV that supposedly killed Stu. When Kirby brings up the TV that killed Stu, Mindy quipped, “If you judge he’s dead.”

Scream’s archetypal screenwriter, Kevin Williamson, has said that Stu is dead dead. “No, he’s dead. I deliberation that started due to the fact that of the assemblage scene, the frat enactment country due to the fact that he’s lasting successful the background. He conscionable came to sojourn acceptable that night,” helium told Collider.

The latest Scream squad isn’t truthful factual astir Stu’s fate. “There’s nary bully answer, truthful I volition ne'er corroborate oregon contradict worldly similar that,” James Vanderbilt told Variety. Producer William Sherak added, “Anything’s possible.” Producer Paul Neinstein besides said, “Characters tin travel successful and out! There’s antithetic ways to bash it. It’s specified a portion of each of their lives; they person an affinity for Scream.”

Even if Stu is dead, helium could travel backmost arsenic Skeet Ulrich’s Billy Loomis, who has appeared successful the latest 2 films successful Sam’s head. If Stu someway is inactive alive, that would beryllium the eventual twist. Scream 7 could travel the taxable of Scream 3: the past tin ever comes backmost to wound you.

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