{"id":613525,"date":"2026-05-31T10:39:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T10:39:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/613525\/"},"modified":"2026-05-31T10:39:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T10:39:13","slug":"lillard-on-scrapped-scream-7-credits-stinger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/613525\/","title":{"rendered":"Lillard On Scrapped &#8220;Scream 7&#8221; Credits Stinger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/matthew-lillard-joins-man-of-tomorrow-cast.jpg\" data-caption=\"Universal Pictures\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/matthew-lillard-joins-man-of-tomorrow-cast.jpg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"matthew-lillard-joins-man-of-tomorrow-cast\"\/><\/a>Universal Pictures<\/p>\n<p>Actor Matthew Lillard has confirmed that \u201cScream 7\u201d had a post-credits stinger filmed, one that would\u2019ve changed the fate of his character.<\/p>\n<p>SPOILERS AHEAD FOR \u201cSCREAM 7\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The recent film spends a good portion of its runtime suggesting Lillard\u2019s Stu Macher character from the original 1996 \u201cScream\u201d is still alive.  It\u2019s ultimately revealed that the real killers were using AI deepfakes of Stu for the video calls in which he\u2019s seen.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at a Fan Expo Denver panel recently (via <a href=\"https:\/\/screenrant.com\/scream-7-stu-alternate-ending-new-details-matthew-lillard\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Screen Rant<\/a>), Lillard confirmed a post-credits scene for the film was shot that would\u2019ve made it clear that his character had, in fact, survived.<\/p>\n<p>However, the scene didn\u2019t play well in test screenings, so it was cut from the film:<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[I told Kevin Williamson], we spent the entire movie proving that Stu is alive, and then if he doesn\u2019t come out that door people are going to be bummed.  So, what we should do, is we should shoot a post-credit sequence where it\u2019s just Stu watching TV somewhere, alive.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, we shot it. I will say, when they showed it [to test audiences], they showed it without credits. So, they go to the end, and then they show me in a reflection watching TV, and it didn\u2019t work\u2026So, it didn\u2019t work because they didn\u2019t test it right, but I think it would have been completely [different with the credits].\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cScream 7\u201d ultimately scored the worst critical aggregate scores of the franchise, despite becoming the highest-grossing entry in the horror series with $207 million.  \u201cScream 7\u201d is now available to stream on the Paramount+ service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Universal Pictures Actor Matthew Lillard has confirmed that \u201cScream 7\u201d had a post-credits stinger filmed, one that would\u2019ve&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":613526,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[94966,96,2839,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-613525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-bigslider","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=613525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613525\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/613526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=613525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=613525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=613525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}