{"id":484366,"date":"2026-02-22T19:44:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T19:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/484366\/"},"modified":"2026-02-22T19:44:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T19:44:07","slug":"scream-7-director-reveals-huge-change-to-the-franchise-and-we-dont-love-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/484366\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Scream 7&#8217; Director Reveals Huge Change To The Franchise (And We Don&#8217;t Love It)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The horror genre has been experiencing a renaissance for years, and it&#8217;s been a joy for fans like me. Some of the best horror movies returned to theaters with new sequels, including Wes Craven&#8217;s &#8220;Scream.&#8221; The seventh movie will be in theaters shortly, and is one of the most highly anticipated upcoming horror movies of the year. &#8220;Scream 7&#8221; will be directed by Kevin Williamson, who wrote the first few movies. And he just revealed a major change to the franchise as a whole that I&#8217;m not really loving. What we know about &#8220;Scream 7&#8221; is limited, likely in order to guard its twists against spoilers. Neve Campbell is returning as Sidney Prescott, after being noticeably absent from the last movie (which is streaming with a Paramount+ subscription). In an interview with Empire Magazine (via our sister site Games Radar+), Williamson revealed a huge change to the property: the new movie apparently won&#8217;t have the typical meta commentary on the horror genre.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The horror genre has been experiencing a renaissance for years, and it&#8217;s been a joy for fans like&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":484367,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[236,88,72999,65931,22525,223059,46646],"class_list":{"0":"post-484366","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-horror-movies","11":"tag-kevin-williamson","12":"tag-scream","13":"tag-sidney-prescott","14":"tag-wes-craven"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484366","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=484366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484366\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/484367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=484366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=484366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}