Scream fans in the UK have a little less time to wait to reunite with Ghostface, as Paramount has confirmed an earlier release date for Scream 7. The sequel brings back Neve Campbell, but won’t be a direct follow-up to the previous movie as Melissa Barrera and Jenna Ortega are not returning.
Instead of continuing Sam and Tara’s story which, according to Skeet Ulrich, would have seen Sam become Ghostface in the new movie, Scream 7 sees Sidney Prescott (Campbell) forced back into action to protect her daughter Tatum (Isabel May) after a new Ghostface killer targets her.
While US fans have to wait until 27 February to see who the new Ghostface is, Scream 7 has now been confirmed to arrive one day earlier in UK cinemas with it now being released on Thursday, 26 February.
Don’t expect to hear much about Scream 7 until the release day though, as Campbell confirmed in a recent interview that nobody will see it until the actual release day. Of course, that doesn’t include her as she knows exactly what happens.
“It’s great. It’s really good. When they came to me about this one, they said they wanted to come back to Sidney Prescott and see where she is at in this journey in her life,” she said on The Jonathan Ross Show.
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“She’s a mother [with] a teen daughter. It’s been very brave of her to decide to have a family considering what happens to most of the people in her life. Her worst nightmare is that Ghostface would come and harm her family and, of course, it’s a Scream movie so that’s exactly what happens. Isabel May, who plays my daughter, is fantastic,” she added.
“It’s a very dramatic film. I love making them. The first one was like summer camp… we were all young and new in our careers. It was such a magical experience. The ones who survive, every time we get to re-visit each other it’s a lot of fun.”
While Barrera and Ortega aren’t back in the new movie, Scream 7 does bring back franchise mainstay Courteney Cox as Gale Weathers, as well as Jasmin Savoy Brown and Mason Gooding who reprise their roles as Mindy and Chad Meeks-Martin from the previous two movies.
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We’ll also, somehow, see the return of David Arquette as Dewey Riley, who was killed off in the 2022 prequel Scream, alongside Matthew Lillard and Scott Foley as previous Ghostface killers Stu Macher and Roman Bridger.
How that’ll happen, we’ll have to wait and see, but at least that wait is now one day shorter.
Scream 7 is released in UK cinemas on 26 February and in US cinemas on 27 February.
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