The iconic final girl is back.
In the long-awaited first official trailer for Scream 7, which dropped on Thursday, Neve Campbell returns as Sidney Prescott.
Also seen in the trailer is Courteney Cox as determined reporter Gale Weathers, who survived a brutal attack from Ghostface in Scream VI. David Arquette, who plays Dewey Riley and was married to Weathers, is also in the film.
Directed by Kevin Williamson, who wrote the script of the original Scream as well as Scream 2 and Scream 4, the seventh installment will follow Sidney’s storyline as a mom. Campbell, who is the final girl in all the other franchise’s films except Scream VI. She was absent from the film due to salary disputes.
“Think about how challenging it would be to make the choice to even have a child if you were Sidney Prescott. Then, if you did have children, the stress and fear that you would live under about your history coming back to you,” Ashley Cullins’ wrote in the Scream tell-all book, Your Favorite Scary Movie: How the Scream Films Rewrote the Rules of Horror, released in August. “I don’t want to give it away, but how she chooses to parent is a big choice and perhaps different than how others might.”
Also returning for the seventh installment is Matthew Lillard as Stu Macher, the original co-Ghostface killer, along with Skeet Ulrich as Billy Loomis; Mason Gooding and Jasmin Savoy Brown as siblings Chad and Mindy in the revival films; and Scott Foley as Scream 3‘s Ghostface, Roman Bridger.
Scream 7‘s cast of newcomers rounds out with Joel McHale, Anna Camp, Mckenna Grace, Isabel May, Michelle Randolph, Ethan Embry, Mark Consuelos, Jimmy Tatro, Celeste O’Connor, Asa Germann and Sam Rechner.
While Gooding teased that the new Ghostface killer will be even more violent, Williamson confirmed that no matter what Ghostface’s kill count is in the new installment, Sidney will be safe. “I have made it very clear, I think publicly too, that Sidney has been through so much torment, and she has been through so much trauma, that to give her anything less than a happy ending is mean,” he said in the Scream book. It’s just sacrilegious.”
James Vanderbilt and Guy Busick of the revival films, Scream and Scream VI, wrote the script. Matt Bettinelli-Olpin, Tyler Gillett and Chad Villella will executive produce. While Marco Beltrami is composing the score.
The slasher film hits theaters Feb. 27, 2026. Click here to learn everything The Hollywood Reporter knows about Scream 7.
