{"id":330438,"date":"2025-12-06T00:13:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-06T00:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/330438\/"},"modified":"2025-12-06T00:13:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-06T00:13:10","slug":"skeet-ulrich-confirms-that-he-is-not-in-scream-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/330438\/","title":{"rendered":"Skeet Ulrich confirms that he is not in Scream 7"},"content":{"rendered":"

Spyglass Media 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 the 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, while Kevin Williamson, who wrote the screenplay for the original\u00a0Scream, directs 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.) If the original plan had stayed on track, Skeet Ulrich was expected to be in the film \u2013 but after the creative shake-up, Ulrich has confirmed that he is not in Scream 7.<\/p>\n

Billy Loomis<\/p>\n

Skeet Ulrich played Billy Loomis in the original Scream, a character who was revealed to be one of the Ghostface killers. Billy didn\u2019t survive that film \u2013 but the character Melissa Barrera played in the last two movies was his daughter, and she kept seeing hallucinations of him, allowing Ulrich to reprise his role decades later. The hallucinations would have continued in Scream 7 if Barrera returned\u2026 but it wasn\u2019t to be.<\/p>\n

Speaking with the New York Post<\/a>, Ulrich said, \u201cI\u2019m not involved. I\u2019m really excited though. I\u2019m excited for Kevin Williamson to take the helm and to see what the mastermind of it all comes up with. I used to know [what the movie was about], because part of coming back for five and six was being a part of seven. It was a three-picture arc for Billy Loomis, or the imagination of Billy Loomis in Melissa Barrera\u2019s character\u2019s head. But when all that went down with her, obviously you lose her and you lose what\u2019s in her head. I used to know what the seventh was going to be and it was really, really interesting. Now I have no clue.\u201c<\/p>\n

Scream 7 cast<\/p>\n

Neve Campbell<\/a> is joined in the cast by Isabel May of the\u00a0Yellowstone\u00a0prequel\u00a01883, who\u00a0plays Sidney\u2019s daughter Tatum; 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,\u00a0Riverdale\u2018s Mark Consuelos, fellow franchise star Courteney Cox, who reprises the role of reporter \/ author Gale Weathers, Joel McHale (Community) as Sidney\u2019s husband Mark Evans, and Ethan Embray (The Devil\u2019s Candy). Although two of the \u201ccore four\u201d characters established in the previous two movies are no longer around, Mason Gooding and Jasmin Savoy Brown are back as Chad Meeks-Martin and Mindy Meeks-Martin.<\/p>\n

Also in the cast are Matthew Lillard and Scott Foley, who played Ghostface killers in the original\u00a0Scream\u00a0and\u00a0Scream 3, respectively, and did not appear to make it out of those movies alive. David Arquette is back as the dearly departed Dewey, who exited the world of the living in the fifth movie.<\/p>\n

Although Ulrich and Lillard were both killers in the original Scream (and both appear in the newly released Five Nights at Freddy\u2019s 2<\/a>), Ulrich has not been told what his fellow Ghostface is doing in Scream 7. \u201cI don\u2019t know how [Matthew Lillard\u2019s] back. I have no idea, which I\u2019m kind of excited for, to see it and not know.\u201c<\/p>\n

Scream 7 is set to reach theatres on\u00a0February 27, 2026.\u00a0Are you looking forward to the film, and are you disappointed to hear that Skeet Ulrich won\u2019t appear in it? Let us know by leaving a comment below.<\/p>\n

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