Slester fans rejoiced! Next installment in Scream The franchise recently wrapped filming and slate to hit theaters in February 2026 worldwide.
This sequel follows the timeline of the series, although in a slight-twilight fashion. Scream (2022) and Scream 6 Directors Matt Bettineli-Olpin and Tyler Gillet stepped down and temporarily replaced Happy death day Helmer Christopher Landon. He then walked out of the project with Melissa Barrera and Jenna Ortga, making way for the original screenwriter Kevin Williamson to reside on the director’s chair.
While from the path Scream It has been 6 to 7 Fluctuate To say at least, some stability is ensured: franchise stallwarts Nava Campbell and Cutnee Cox returns as Sydney Perces and Gayle Warees respectively and a Swathe of recognizable artists prepared to resume their roles.
With this fresh stabAchieves, moving towards theaters in ten months, which gives us a lot of time to speculate between our wishes for the future of the new film and the series. What do I want to see here:
1. Innovative ways to bring back the returning cast
in an ideal world, Scream 7 We have to distribute one at the end New bad dreamTake to the franchise. Hit the web from the photo after the initial set Scream 5I was sure what was back to us in 2022. (Jock wearing a letterman jacket on the porch at Stu’s house? Can be a screenshot from the origin of 1996!)
I wish we have seen what we have seen Scream 7 This is not the case.
So now we know that they are probably not playing their own versions in “The Real World”, how will Williamson plan to bring back the characters who are very dead? David Archewate, Matthew Lillard and Scott Fole are confirmed, but Davi, Stu and Roman all died on screen.
Roman engineers a voice changer, which allowed him to give voice to any person, living or dead, so there is a chance that they can be all voice cameos. I will not oppose the twist of that brand.
With Tech In Tech with the Scream Series, it makes sense that we can also see the AI ​​version of the previous characters. The idea of ​​AI Deepfec asked to kill the web that Stu did not die or something, to make a toy with the purity of Sydney, makes sense.
Matthew was due to being able to return to Lillard Captured a recent con eventWhere he confirmed that he had returned and jokingly mentioned returning as ‘a fairy godmader’. He Discussed to work on set With both Williamson and Campbell- who would suggest that they have scenes With Sydney,
Similarly, Foli appeared on Kelly and Mark Live and Confirmed He is playing Roman.
So this shows that they are playing their original characters (like Lillard, there was no timid a little cameo in the background. Scream 2I was not the biggest fan of the audience of Billy Lumis, who was visible to my daughter-so I did not again have a D-AZ skite Ularich position.
What if the ghosts of Sydney’s past are really haunting him? Of lyrics…
2. Let’s be supernatural
Okay, listen to me. Am I the only person who liked Sid’s mother returning from the tomb Scream 3I understood; The brain of Sid was jointly playing tricks with his brother’s Xinigam. So, not really a return from the tomb. But still, this Indicated On the idea of ​​another element.
We are entering late to a slester franchise- if ever it is time to push the boat out, it is now. When he went to Manhattan, Jason really pushed the boat out. Freddy’s Backstory included the Dream demons in its entire shit and dropped out of control in later parts. Michael Myers Nickel … well included a creed and a summoning ritual.
I can see why fans will hate from this point of view- it is jumping on the shark, doing something that none of other films have done. But at this point? Why not expand Scream Is it yet to find in the last limit? We have repeated the same formula for the last five sequels again and again. If handled correctly, the idea of ​​an entire sleeve of ghostfes coming from the past can be really terrible to disturb the Sydney. Which is well segues in my next point!
3. More scary set pieces!
Possibly one thing all scream fans may agree on this – because the ranking of scream films is not one of them – it is that earlier entries knew how to actually execute the scary setpiece. Naturally, the opening of 1996 origin is the top shelf example, followed by both Sisi’s death and Gayle in the AV room. Scream 2,
The most recent sequel really failed to increase stress, and detected action and gore on real fear-making. Give, I like some gore – scream 4 Wins the award for Nastest Entry-but a curse is not at the cost of good nerve-worlding. I want your breath, a glimpse-to-my-mind-like feeling. Some of these aspects were indicated, of course, but never deepened.
To keep it clearly – the scream sequel has a woody for woodsboro.
While the first film and its immediate successor dealt with developing both innocent teenagers * and * style trops, later films have taken care of their own making qualifications. It is like metatxuality that lacks depth and living power. When it slant the horror style and modern cultural mores overall, it screams; Not just Woodsboro and Stab’s universe in-brahmand.
But here is rubbing: How do we do this when the horror style has time to develop between time? Well, here I am hopeful in the store Scream 7What if Williamson and author cows dive into late-stage franchise slashers for cow busy motivation. Yes, of course, Scream 6 Kinda did this with Mindi’s “Rules Speech”, but it was the weakest part of the film and not especially memorable. Let’s separate those unique chakki, Freddy, Michael and Jason Sequel and Rip ‘M. (And yes, it will tie well with my earlier idea to bring it into supernatural elements!)
5. Give a pleasant end to Sydney
While open back door Scream 3The shots indicated at the right end for Sydney have been concluded -he is out in peace and returned to destruction, bringing only a ghost again and again. How can we tell a new story?
From the look of Leakes set footageThis sequel is a completely new place- imaginary pine grove, Indiana. Sydney married Joel Mcahel’s character, Mark (to mark Kincad). We know that there is a time jump; Sydney’s daughter is at an age where she is played at the age of 24, so it is revealed that she is portraying a teenager. This entire setup would indicate that SID had some time from the spotlight. Probably we have not committed any other murder between 6 and this one.
The torch is being passed in a very comic moment in the scream 5 and this happened? But unfortunately both of them left the franchise with Melissa Barra and Jena Ortga, shooting that idea in the leg. This new artist is absolutely stacked – so why is anyone not a new anchor?
I want Sydney to have a pleasant end, which does not include a larynary strod in an armored fort Halloween 2018 or a life on the run like the entire converl of the terminator. He really deserves a peaceful life, yes, but this does not mean that it may not be interesting or medical for him.
He provided counseling services for women who experience trauma (Scream 3), He wrote a book about his own wrangling (scream 4), And she flats out to the left city (Scream 5 and 6). What if she sticks around and makes peace in a new way?
We will find out when Scream 7 Open in theaters on 27 February 2026. Meanwhile, you can stream the Max on Max on Max in the US, Paramount in UK+ and Netflix in Australia.
