EXCLUSIVE: No spoiler alert right here.
Matthew Lillard, who performed Stuart ‘Stu’ Macher within the first 1996 Scream film, is returning to the franchise for Spyglass/Paramount’s Scream 7.
How is that attainable? We’ll see. Does Stu have a twin? Doesn’t appear like it from Lillard’s Instagram publish. Final we noticed the horror-movie obsessed Stu, he was chasing Neve Campbell’s Sidney down 29 years in the past, making an attempt to kill her. Nevertheless, she had the higher hand, dropping a TV on his head. Additionally, you’ll do not forget that Billy and Stu started stabbing one another to make themselves appear like the victims — simply moments earlier than Sidney kicked their ass.
Scream launched Lillard’s profession out of a canon with the actor persevering with on to star in The Scooby Doo live-action franchise, She’s All That, The Descendants and even a key function within the Blumhouse/Common hit 5 Nights at Freddy’s.
The actor joins legacy forged members Neve Campbell and Courteney Cox in addition to Scott Foley, Mason Gooding and Jasmin Savoy Brown, alongside newcomers Isabel Might, Celeste O’Connor, Asa Germann, Mckenna Grace, Sam Rechner, Anna Camp, Joel McHale and Mark Consuelos.
Franchise creator Kevin Williamson is directing with Man Busick (2022’s Scream and Scream VI) writing. Venture X Leisure’s James Vanderbilt, William Sherak and Paul Neinstein (2022’s Scream and Scream VI) are producing.
The long-running horror franchise beforehand generated 4 characteristic movies together with Scream (1996), Scream 2 (1997), Scream 3 (2000) and Scream 4 (2011), directed by the late Wes Craven. It relaunched with the fifth installment, Scream, in 2022.
The newest outing, Scream VI, was launched theatrically worldwide in March 2023 and holds the franchise document for highest home field workplace gross with greater than $108 million and has taken in additional than $169 million worldwide. Collectively, the Scream franchise has earned greater than $900 million in worldwide field workplace receipts.
Lillard is repped by Verve, Strand Leisure, and Heller Legislation.
Scream 7 hits cinemas through Paramount on Feb. 27, 2026.
