Scream 7 will reportedly see the return of Matthew Lillard – discover out extra under.
Lillard famously portrayed Stu Macher within the unique 1996 Scream to kick off the beloved franchise. In that movie, Macher and franchise protagonist Sidney Prescott’s boyfriend Billy Loomis had been revealed to be the Ghostface killers, with Sidney killing each characters on the finish of the film.
Nonetheless, Deadline has reported that Lillard shall be returning for the franchise’s seventh entry, Scream 7. It comes shortly after Lillard posted a cryptic video on Instagram, through which he writes down one in every of Stu’s well-known quotes: “My mother and pop are gonna be so mad at me!”
Deadline notes that plot particulars on Lillard’s return in Scream 7 are being saved below wraps. Scream 7 is at present scheduled to launch in February 2026.
Although Sidney dropped a tv on Stu Macher’s head on the finish of Scream, there appears to be a slight probability that he survived. Talking to Vulture in 2022, Lillard shared that there was a model of Scream 3 that will have revealed his survival. He was initially because of return for Scream 3, although plans modified on the final minute.
He stated on the time: “I used to be supposed do Scream 3. I obtained paid for 3. Probably not effectively, however I ended up getting paid for one thing I didn’t do as a result of the thought was that I’d be operating high-school killers from jail. Look, it’s a horror film! Loopy issues occur on a regular basis. Have you ever seen Friday the thirteenth? Jason comes again — like Stu nonetheless might come again.”
This was additional fuelled by followers’ hypothesis that Macher was nonetheless alive after he’s briefly seen throughout a university get together scene in Scream 2. Nonetheless, this was later shot down by Scream author – and Scream 7 director – Kevin Williamson, who advised Collider: “No, he’s lifeless. I believe that began due to the school scene, the frat get together scene as a result of he’s standing within the background. He simply came around set that night time.”
Stu Macher’s potential return wouldn’t be the primary time a legacy character has come again for current entries. Scream’s massive unhealthy Billy Loomis appeared – although as a imaginative and prescient – in Scream 5 and 6.
Scream 6 scored a four-star evaluate, with Alex Flood writing for NME: “Scream VI isn’t excellent: the fixed meta references (previous killers, the ‘guidelines’ of the franchise) felt ingenious in final yr’s reboot, however right here develop tiresome. There’s additionally a complicated subplot round Sam’s suppressed need to emulate her dad (Billy Loomis, the unique Ghostface), who seems in hallucinations telling her to homicide individuals. Throw within the common exposition periods, which hold the viewer updated on the plot however make it really feel like a Gen Z Poirot, and it might all begin to get in your nerves. Fortunately, such is the sheer, bloody pleasure of the factor that you just’ll be too preoccupied to note. Possibly extra horror baddies ought to transfer to New York?”
