{"id":144868,"date":"2025-05-30T19:18:10","date_gmt":"2025-05-30T19:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/144868\/"},"modified":"2025-05-30T19:18:10","modified_gmt":"2025-05-30T19:18:10","slug":"scream-7-picks-up-at-least-two-years-after-the-events-of-scream-vi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/144868\/","title":{"rendered":"Scream 7 picks up “at least two years” after the events of Scream VI"},"content":{"rendered":"

Scream 7\u00a0started filming at the start of January, aiming for a\u00a0February 27, 2026<\/strong>\u00a0release date,\u00a0with Kevin Williamson, who wrote the screenplay for the original\u00a0Scream, directing the film from a screenplay by 2022\u2019s\u00a0Scream\u00a0and\u00a0Scream VI\u00a0writer Guy Busick, who crafted the story with his co-writer on the fifth and sixth films, James Vanderbilt. (Vanderbilt is also a producer on the most recent sequels.) Now, Busick has revealed that Scream 7 picks up \u201cat least two years\u201d after the events of Scream VI.<\/p>\n

Spyglass and Paramount once intended to make a\u00a0Scream 7\u00a0that would have starred\u00a0Scream\u00a0(2022) and\u00a0Scream VI\u00a0leads Melissa Barrera and Jenna Ortega, with\u00a0Freaky\u00a0and\u00a0Happy Death Day\u00a0director Christopher Landon at the helm. But then Ortega allegedly asked for a\u00a0substantial pay raise<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 and as we saw when Neve Campbell dropped out of\u00a0Scream VI\u00a0due to a pay dispute, these pay issues don\u2019t tend to work out. Then Barrera was fired from the project after comments she made about the Israel-Hamas war didn\u2019t go over well with executives at Spyglass.\u00a0Landon dropped out of the project soon after. So\u00a0Scream 7\u00a0has been re-developed,\u00a0Campbell has signed on to return as franchise heroine Sidney Prescott, back in the lead role.<\/p>\n

Neve Campbell<\/a>\u00a0is joined in the cast by Isabel May of the\u00a0Yellowstone\u00a0prequel\u00a01883, who\u00a0has signed on to play Sidney\u2019s daughter; Mckenna Grace of the\u00a0Ghostbusters\u00a0franchise, Grace\u2019s\u00a0Ghostbusters\u00a0co-star Celeste O\u2019Connor,\u00a0Gen V\u2018s Asa Germann,\u00a0The Fabelmans\u2018 Sam Rechner,\u00a0Pitch Perfect\u2018s Anna Camp, fellow franchise star Courteney Cox, who reprises the role of reporter \/ author Gale Weathers, Joel McHale (Community) as Sidney\u2019s husband Mark Evans, Ethan Embry (The Devil\u2019s Candy), Michelle Randolph (Landman), Jimmy Tatro (American Vandal), and Mark Consuelos (Riverdale). Mason Gooding and Jasmin Savoy Brown are back as Chad Meeks-Martin and Mindy Meeks-Martin from\u00a0Scream\u00a0(2022) and\u00a0Scream VI. There are multiple deceased characters in the cast as well: Matthew Lillard and Scott Foley, who played Ghostface killers who were killed off in\u00a0Scream\u00a0(1996) and\u00a0Scream 3, respectively, and David Arquette, whose beloved character Dewey lost his life in\u00a0Scream\u00a0(2022), are all in there.<\/p>\n

Busick didn\u2019t address the living dead cast members, but he did tell ComicBook.com<\/a>, \u201cWe always wanted to do a Sidney movie and so it was like, \u2018All right, let\u2019s get into it and why now and why this one?\u2019 I don\u2019t want to give anything away about the reason [Scream 7] had to be a Sidney movie because there\u2019s a really cool reason. In all these movies, you have to ask, \u2018Why now? What is the thing Scream is commenting on now?\u2019 Scream is always in a conversation with the audience about the state of movies, the state of horror movies and in particular, franchises. \u2026 I will say there is a reason and we were happy with it when we cracked it. We went to Neve Campbell and said, \u2018This is why. This is why Sidney now.\u2019 Neve was like, \u2018Oh, I get that.\u2019 I pitched Kevin [Williamson] this first, too. He got it and then I pitched the studio. I came up with the story with my co-writer on 5 and 6, James Vanderbilt.\u201c<\/p>\n

Busick did admit that he and Vanderbilt had been hoping to make another \u201cCore Four\u201d movie (starring Barrera, Ortega, Gooding, and Brown) before getting around to their Sidney movie, but it wasn\u2019t to be. \u201cWe weren\u2019t able to use what we had in the previous iteration for this one. [We] just had to start from scratch, which was a bummer. We were excited about what we had for that movie. We wanted to do one more \u2018Core Four\u2019 movie. We know the fans love those characters. We love those characters. We created those characters. I would love to see, in some universe, the continuation of their characters, in some way. But we weren\u2019t able to port over the stuff from the other story. It was like, \u2018Okay, here is what the universe dealt us.\u2019\u201d It was Vanderbilt who found a way to bring in Gooding and Brown\u2019s characters, despite the absence of Barrera and Ortega. \u201cI want to give credit where credit is due, but it was an organic way why they would be in this movie. I don\u2019t want to spoil anything, but I will say it\u2019s through Gale. She\u2019s the connective tissue in\u00a05\u00a0and\u00a06\u00a0and she\u2019s in this. New York was obviously a big part of that. She bonded with those four and there\u2019s a reason why these two come to this town where the action is happening.\u201c<\/p>\n

As for the setting, \u201cIt\u2019s not New York. I don\u2019t want to be the one to spoil where it is. It\u2019s an unspecified amount of time [after\u00a0VI]. I might get contradicted by other people, but in my mind, more than two years. I would say at least two years. It could be two years, but I would say two years plus.\u201c<\/p>\n

Are you looking forward to Scream 7? What do you think of the story picking up two years after Scream VI? Let us know by leaving a comment below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Scream 7\u00a0started filming at the start of January, aiming for a\u00a0February 27, 2026\u00a0release date,\u00a0with Kevin Williamson, who wrote…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":144869,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3935],"tags":[4567,4569,77,62469,3943,62470,6294,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-144868","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-aith","9":"tag-arrow-in-the-head","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-kevin-williamson","12":"tag-movies","13":"tag-neve-campbell","14":"tag-scream-7","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114598399384093596","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144868\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}