Summary
- Scream 7 starts filming in January 2025, directed by Kevin Williamson.
- Fans eager for familiar faces and potential new Ghostface revelations.
- The movie set to release on February 27th, 2026, sparking speculations on the franchise’s future.
It’s been a long road since Scream 7 was announced in 2023. Horror fans who have been hoping to hear as many updates as possible will want to know when the slasher movie is filming.
Rich Delia, a casting director, told The Direct that Scream 7 will begin filming in January 2025. This news comes after a series of exciting casting announcements, such as Pitch Perfect star Anna Camp.
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For a while, there was rarely any news about Scream 7. The wait for more updates gave fans time to come up with intense and sometimes unrealistic theories. Fans were curious about when the movie would start filming, but before that detail could be ironed out, more actors had to be added to the cast and the director had to be chosen. Excitement over the news that Christopher Landon was directing Scream 7 disappeared when he announced in December 2023 that he was no longer going to get behind the camera of the sequel. In March 2024, Neve Campbell’s return as Sidney Prescott made headlines, along with the great news that Kevin Williamson would direct Scream 7.
In his interview with The Direct, Delia also talked about the various Ghostfaces in the franchise. He said, “Ghostface kind of fits into each iteration of ‘Scream’ differently, and so you’re just looking for however the casting can elevate or subvert the audience’s expectations of who that might be.”
Many hope Scream 7 will include everything that fans know and love about the franchise, from silly moments to wise quotes and reflections on the horror genre. The fact that Williamson, who wrote several Scream movies, is directing is a step in the right nostalgic and familiar direction.
In 2016, when it had been 20 years since Scream was released, Williamson and Campbell talked about how much people enjoy the slasher franchise in an interview with Entertainment Tonight. Williamson said:
“Horror movies at the time were going straight to video. I just remember it took on a life of its own. Word of mouth is what made Scream.”
It’s amazing to reflect on the longevity of the franchise and the fact that six great Scream movies were released between 1996 and 2023. There could even be a Scream 8, Scream 9, and Scream 10, depending on the audience response and box office numbers for the next movie. Although Scream 7 may start filming shortly, the seventh movie in the overwhelmingly popular franchise will be released on February 27th, 2026. When compared to the last two movies, that is quite a long wait. Scream (2022) was released in January 2022 and Scream 6 was released just over one year later in March 2023. However, there is plenty of time to think about what Gale Weathers’s (Courteney Cox) arc should be and, of course, the most important question of all: who is the new Ghostface?
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Source: Thedirect.com