It’s a dead man’s party! Deadline reports that David Arquette is the latest cast member to return to the Scream franchise for Scream 7, which hits theaters next year. Despite the fact that Dewey Riley perished in one of the more recent films in the franchise, it looks like the upcoming legacy sequel is pulling absolutely no punches this time around.
Plot details for the film are being kept under wraps, though we do know that the sequel has begun filming, according to franchise director Kevin Williamson. It seems likely that, with the earlier announcements of Scott Foley and Matthew Lillard also joining the cast, some kind of dream sequence or hallucination might be at play in the upcoming legacy sequel, with a fan theory suggesting that returning scream queen Sidney Prescott might be hallucinating killers from her past with the emergence of a new Ghostface. Whether that’s true remains to be seen, but how Dewey would rise from the dead otherwise is an excellent question, unless the franchise decides to take a hard left into George A. Romero territory.
What we do know is that plenty of key cast members from the franchise will be returning for Scream 7 alongside David Arquette, notably Neve Campbell and Courteney Cox, with the former returning after being absent from Scream VI, but also Mason Gooding and Jasmine Savoy-Brown, who featured in the last two “legacy sequel” films in the franchise as twins. Scream 7 is also set to star Ghostbusters: Afterlife stars Celeste O’Connor and Mckenna Grace, as well as Anna Camp and Isabel May.
Scream 7 is the third sequel in the “rebooted” era of the franchise, following 2022’s Scream and Scream VI in 2023, the latter of which raked in a franchise-high gross at the domestic box office, earning over $108 million. The series doesn’t look like it’s headed for graveyard anytime soon, though, as the release of Scream 7 looks set to push the franchise past the $1 billion mark at the global box office.
Scream 7 hits theaters on February 27, 2026.
