You can’t keep a good Ghostface down.

Somehow, it seems not one but two dearly departed Ghostface Killers are returning to the Scream franchise for the 7th iteration of the classic slasher flicks.

For the first time since 1996, Matthew Lillard, who played (one of) the first Ghostfaces, is coming back in some way or another to Scream 7. Lillard, who has often said he believes that Stu is not dead, posted a suggestive hint to anyone who has seen the first movie.

Deadline posted late Thursday that Lillard IS coming back, though no studio announcement has been made to date. Lillard’s character seemingly died after Sidney Prescott (Neve Campbell) dropped a television on his head, but that doesn’t rule out clones, twins, dream sequences or, as chronologically impossible as it may be, flashbacks as a way to engineer Stu’s resurrection.

Scott Foley, who played Roman Bridger, the film director and half-brother of Sidney in Scream 3, who at the end was revealed to be that film’s Ghostface Killer, is also on the cast list for Scream 7, so at least two former killers will be haunting Sidney in the new film. Foley’s casting was announced earlier in the day.

In addition to Campbell, long-time franchise star Courteney Cox as well as Mason Gooding and Jasmin Savoy Brown are returning. They’ll be joined by newcomers Isabel May, Celeste O’Connor, Asa Germann, Mckenna Grace, Sam Rechner, Anna Camp, Joel McHale and, as was announced on Wednesday, Mark Consuelos. Kevin Williamson is directing and

Collectively, the Scream franchise has earned more than $900 million worldwide so far.

You can find out how Lillard and Foley are brought back into the Ghostface universe when Scream 7 hits theaters on February 27th, 2026.