It is a reality universally acknowledged that should you do not bodily see a personality die on display screen, then they merely usually are not useless. Hell, typically you do see them die and so they nonetheless come again. However within the case of Matthew Lillard’s Scream fan favorite Stu Macher, the OG Ghostface killer appeared fairly rattling useless when final we noticed him, having simply had a reside 50-pound CRT TV dropped on his head after buying and selling cuts with fellow stab-happy psycho Billy Loomis (Skeet Ulrich). However because the mad man himself as soon as stated, “Today you have gotta have a sequel!” And so, per Deadline‘s reporting (and Matthew Lillard’s Instagram), Stuart ‘Stu’ Macher will be again in Kevin Williamson’s upcoming Scream VII.
Information of Lillard’s function reprisal comes scorching on the heels of this night’s different eye-catching Scream 7 casting announcement, which is the return of one other lengthy presumed useless Ghostface to the franchise — Scott Foley‘s Scream 3 mistaken’un (and Sidney Prescott’s half-brother) Roman Bridger. How Lillard and Foley are again, like just about every part about Kevin Williamson’s film at this stage, is a thriller. For all we all know, they might be ghosts, or they might be Stu and Roman’s twin brothers (sure, we have not forgotten these rumours from again within the day about Stu’s twin). However nonetheless they issue into Williamson and author Man Busick’s plans, they will don’t have any scarcity of esteemed firm. Already confirmed to be returning for the slasher saga’s seventh instalment are Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox, Mason Gooding, and Jasmin Savoy Brown; and so they’re joined by newcomers McKenna Grace, Isabel Could, Celeste O’Connor, Asa Germann, Sam Rechner, Anna Camp, Joel McHale, and Mark Consuelos.
So simply how precisely is Stu again in any case these years? And what is the cope with a number of previous Ghostfaces exhibiting up? Additionally, whereas we’re at it, what is the cope with Sid’s new husband Mark Evans (McHale) and what occurred to Patrick Dempsey’s clearly superior Mark Kincaid? Even after consulting our trusty Scream recap, our noodles are nonetheless twisted. However with manufacturing already effectively underway on Scream VII forward of the film’s deliberate 27 February, 2026 theatrical launch, we can’t have to attend too lengthy for solutions. However for now, the upshot is Stu Macher is alive, and Sidney Prescott is at risk. And to that we’ve simply two phrases so as to add: Liver alone!
