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Scream’s original Ghostface reveals what we almost saw in Scream 7
Skeet Ulrich's Billy Loomis was meant to come back to train the new Ghostface from beyond the grave, but it was not to be
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The Scream franchise has been going for a long time, but it has had plenty of ups and downs over the years. 2026’s Scream 7 represents 30 years since the original movie came out, but at least one Ghostface isn’t going to be in the upcoming sequel. Skeet Ulrich isn’t coming back for Scream 7 – not because he doesn’t want to, but because the actor playing his daughter, Melissa Barrera, was dropped from the franchise.
Skeet Ulrich’s Billy Loomis died in the original Scream film in 1996 but he has appeared in multiple sequels over the years. Notably, he played a big role in both 2022’s Scream (usually referred to as Scream V) and Scream VI. In these films, it was revealed that Billy had fathered a child named Sam Carpenter, who was the new hero of the Scream franchise. Sam was played by Melissa Barrera and was guided by the ghost of her father as she tried to evade being killed by the new Ghostface. The movies hinted at a darkness in her, but we never got to see that fully developed.
“I’ve been vocal about that,” Skeet Ulrich said in a recent interview about whether he was returning for Scream 7. “I’m not. When we talked about coming back for [Scream V], it was a three-picture arc for Billy Loomis to slowly turn his daughter into the killer. Obviously, those things didn’t pan out, given certain things that happened. But, no, I know nothing about the seventh.”
The events that Ulrich is alluding to are Melissa Barrera being removed from the franchise due to her comments about Israel’s ongoing actions in Gaza, which Barrera described as “genocide and ethnic cleansing” in social media posts at the time. Spyglass, the owners of the Scream franchise, swiftly fired her, ending her character’s journey before we got to see her deceased father slowly turn her into a killer just like him.
Scream 7 is set for release February 27, 2026.
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