Scream 7 will one way or the other convey another person again from the lifeless, and it is a title that can please followers…though confusion is certain to be in play concerning how this character returns. With the latest forged additions of Scott Foley and Matthew Lillard, two Ghostface killers who met their demise way back, not less than this return is somebody on the facet of excellent.
Per Deadline, David Arquette
is formally returning as Deputy Dewey Riley in Scream 7. No particulars have been revealed about how his character returns and plot particulars are fairly scarce concerning the movie itself, however director Kevin Williamson and author Man Busick higher have one thing fairly sensible up their sleeves to make this make sense. As followers will keep in mind, Arquette’s Dewey Riley was taken out by Amber Freeman (Mikey Madison) in 2022’s Scream. It proved to be a bittersweet second because it was a heroic finish to the character, however followers have been upset to see one of many legacy gamers meet their finish.
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Arquette joins a reasonably stacked forged that features the aforementioned Foley and Lillard, alongside Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox, Mason Gooding, Jasmin Savoy Brown, Isabel Could, Celeste O’Connor, Asa Germann, McKenna Grace, Sam Rechner, Anna Camp, Joel McHale, Mark Consuelos and Ethan Embry. Filming is underway in Atlanta, Georgia with the movie set for a theatrical launch on Feb. 27, 2026.
David Arquette Is One of many ‘Scream’ Franchise’s Staple Characters
David Arquette started his Scream tenure within the 1996 movie that began all of it. Because the lovable goof Deputy Dewey Riley, he was on the case of the murders within the first movie as Sidney Prescott (Campbell) grew to become a major goal. His sister Tatum Riley (Rose McGowan) was Sidney’s finest pal till she met her finish due to a doggy door. Dewey additionally started a relationship with Gale Weathers (Cox), with the pair finally gearing up for marriage on the finish of the third movie. By 2022’s Scream, the pair had parted methods, however Dewey nonetheless had love for Gale, and he or she maintained a mushy spot in her coronary heart for him. For his half, Arquette appeared in Scream, Scream 2, Scream 3, Scream 4 and 2022’s Scream.
Following the discharge of the fifth movie in 2022, Cox was fairly vocal about it being a mistake that Arquette’s character was killed off. On the time, the actress mentioned she fought to maintain the character’s ending extra ambiguous, a lot the way it was executed in Scream and Scream 2, in case the filmmakers modified their minds about bringing him again. Cox mentioned, “I completely did, and I form of thought they heard me. I keep in mind being on the garden going, ‘I simply thought it was an enormous mistake to not have the choice. I perceive why you need [to do it] — it makes it actually severe. However then would not or not it’s nice if simply [in] the final three minutes: textual content from the hospital.’ I wished that to occur.”
Supply: Deadline
Scream 7
- Launch Date
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February 27, 2026
- Producers
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Cathy Konrad, Gary Barber, Marianne Maddalena, Peter Oillataguerre, William Sherak, Chad Villella, Matt Bettinelli-Olpin, Tyler Gillett, Ron Lynch