Regardless of being killed off in Scream 3, Scott Foley has been formally forged within the upcoming Scream 7. There’s no phrase on what form his look will take. Did he supernaturally survive his dying? Will we get a prequel scene? Nevertheless, there’s one Easter egg from Scream (2022) that would make Foley’s return into some of the weird twists of any horror franchise.
The Scream films are “meta” horror films, which means they’re self-referential and exist in a world the place the characters are conscious of horror film tropes. The movies are additionally meant to make some type of commentary on the present state of horror. Because of this, they embrace many Easter eggs for die-hard style followers within the viewers.
Most of those Easter eggs are little particulars, like a cameo by The Exorcist‘s Linda Blair within the first film, two separate Scream characters named after Lindsay Wallace from the unique Halloween and the heartfelt double-meaning of the “For Wes” get together in Scream (2022) — because the viewers and manufacturing alike mourned the primary Scream movie to be made since director Wes Craven handed in 2015.
However one refined Easter egg opens up an enormous can of worms concerning Scott Foley’s character particularly. This Easter egg happens in Scream (2022) when Tara Carpenter (Jenna Ortega) is watching TV in her hospital room. She is proven to be watching Dawson’s Creek, particularly the episode “The Scare”. Not solely is that this a enjoyable episode to incorporate as a result of it satirizes horror films together with Scream, but it surely additionally stars Scream alum Joshua Jackson as Pacey and Scott Foley in his visitor arc as “Cliff”.
What does this imply for the universe of the Scream films? If Scott Foley and Joshua Jackson are certainly actors on the earth of Scream, nobody talked about it in Scream 2 or Scream 3. The timeline of occasions signifies that Roman (Scott Foley) would have been appearing within the TV present Candy Valley Excessive whereas making journeys to Woodsboro to persuade Billy Loomis to kill his girlfriend’s mom — which is fairly bizarre to think about.
If the administrators of Scream (2022) simply wished to make reference to Kevin Williamson (who wrote the unique Scream script and went on to create Dawson’s Creek), they might have simply chosen one in every of his films or exhibits that doesn’t function any of the Scream forged. If they only wished to point out a humorous goof of Scream, they might have chosen the Boy Meets World episode “And Then There Was Shawn” which wouldn’t have any crossover with Scream actors to clarify away. The administrators particularly selected one in every of solely 5 Dawson’s Creek episodes with Scott Foley.
Wouldn’t it’s enjoyable if this was addressed in Scream 7? Williamson is directing and the Scream (2022) administrators wrote the screenplay/created the story. If the Scream films are all about being meta, maybe the casting of Scott Foley means we’re in for some enjoyable retcon? I’m trying ahead to Mindy Meeks-Martin painstakingly explaining to the viewers what all of it means.
Scream 7 has already begun filming and is presently scheduled to be launched on February 27, 2026.