{"id":335752,"date":"2025-12-07T21:20:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T21:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/335752\/"},"modified":"2025-12-07T21:20:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T21:20:07","slug":"skeet-ulrich-reveals-the-scream-reboots-original-endgame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/335752\/","title":{"rendered":"Skeet Ulrich Reveals the ‘Scream’ Reboots’ Original Endgame"},"content":{"rendered":"

The\u00a0Scream<\/a>\u00a0franchise came back to life with a legacy sequel in 2022, followed by a second installment<\/a> the next year. It was clear there were plans in store for the Carpenter women, particularly big sister Sam (Melissa Barrera), and now we know what would\u2019ve played out on the big screen.<\/p>\n

Skeet Ulrich, one of the original Ghostfaces who\u2019s now in\u00a0Five Nights at Freddy\u2019s 2,\u00a0told Entertainment Weekly<\/a> he was first approached with a \u201cthree-picture arc\u201d for Sam to be haunted with visions of his character (and her biological father) Billy Loomis. Through his repeat appearances, Sam would\u2019ve wound up a Ghostface herself, something the two films hinted at by having her kill one of the Ghostfaces in each film. Scream 6 ends with her looking at the Ghostface mask before dropping it in the street to go join her friends, which you could read as her leaving her dark past behind\u00a0or\u00a0preparing to truly embrace it in a follow up.<\/p>\n

But these plans fell apart due to \u201ccertain things,\u201d which is Ulrich\u2019s polite way of saying Barrera was fired by franchise owner Spyglass<\/a> in 2023 after coming out in support of Palestinians in the early days of the Israel-Gaza conflict. Ortega subsequently dropped out<\/a> afterwards, ditto Christopher Landon<\/a>, who took over directing duties after Tyler Gillett and Matt Bettinelli-Olpin left to shoot\u00a0Abigail<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Scream 7<\/a> is directed by Kevin Williamson (who wrote the first and fourth films), with the Carpenter sisters MIA and Neve Campbell back as Sidney Prescott. That film, which includes fellow franchise alums Courtney Cox, Mason Gooding, Jasmine Savoy Brown, and Matthew Lillard, is due out on February 27, 2026. Ulrich reiterated to EW that he won\u2019t be back for this film, and in fact knows \u201cnothing\u201d about it.<\/p>\n

Want more io9 news? Check out when to expect the latest Marvel<\/a>, Star Wars<\/a>, and Star Trek<\/a> releases, what\u2019s next for the DC Universe on film and TV<\/a>, and everything you need to know about the future of Doctor Who<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The\u00a0Scream\u00a0franchise came back to life with a legacy sequel in 2022, followed by a second installment the next…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":335753,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[88,65893,206,22525,169554,50916,97214],"class_list":{"0":"post-335752","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-melissa-barrera","10":"tag-movies","11":"tag-scream","12":"tag-scream-6","13":"tag-scream-7","14":"tag-skeet-ulrich"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=335752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335752\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/335753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=335752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=335752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}