Alison Brie shares her feelings on a Scream 7 return, details explored

Alison Brie joked about wanting to be back in the Scream universe during a recent appearance on the Shut Up Evan podcast, even quipping, “Where’s my role in Scream 7?” which has brought back theories on her comeback.

Her husband, Dave Franco, noted,

“Alison was famously in Scream 4. I feel like with new Scream rules, even though she dies brutally, we could bring her back,”

To which Brie responded and added,

"Yeah, where’s my role in Scream 7? I hear tons of people are coming back. … I mean, Hayden [Panettiere] came back in [Scream] 6.”

She went on to criticize what she called the “current era” of the franchise for letting too many characters survive, arguing the series should be willing to take bigger risks with its body count, a take that only fuels ideas about how a returning character might be written in.

“Too many people live. The ‘core four’ needs to die. We killed [Jamie Kennedy’s Randy Meeks] in Scream 2. We should be down to two of the ‘core four,’ just by Scream 7.”

With Scream 7 due February 27, 2026, and a cast that blends legacy stars like Neve Campbell and Courteney Cox with newcomers such as Isabel May and Joel McHale, it is unclear if a comeback from Brie would be possible via flashback, hallucination, or some clever new twist.

More details on Scream 7

Ghostface isn’t the only one who’s been busy. Behind the scenes, Scream 7 has been a real-life horror show, with cast shake-ups, director swaps, and enough drama to fill its own sequel, but somehow, the seventh entry is now officially slicing its way toward a February 27, 2026, release.

This time, the mask is in the hands of Kevin Williamson, the writer-producer who birthed the franchise back in 1996, now making his directorial debut in the series. Guy Busick handles the script, working from a story by Busick and James Vanderbilt. It’s a direct follow-up to Scream VI, promising familiar faces and shocking returns.

Neve Campbell is back as Sidney Prescott after sitting out the last film, joined by Courteney Cox, Mason Gooding, Jasmin Savoy Brown, Roger L. Jackson as the voice of Ghostface, and David Arquette as Dewey. Newcomers Isabel May and Joel McHale join the chaos as Sidney’s daughter and husband. In a twist that has fans buzzing, Matthew Lillard and Scott Foley, long thought dead in the series’ lore, have been cast in undisclosed roles alongside Anna Camp, Mark Consuelos, Ethan Embry, Asa Germann, McKenna Grace, Celeste O’Connor, Sam Rechner, Michelle Randolph, and Jimmy Tatro.