For the first time in the franchise’s history, original Scream writer Kevin Williamson sits in the director’s chair for the upcoming Scream 7, due in theaters on February 27, 2026.

Neve Campbell is back as Sidney Prescott, with the character taking center stage in the upcoming seventh installment. She’ll be joined by a host of returning players including David Arquette, Courteney Cox, Scott Foley and Matthew Lillard, with Mason Gooding and Jasmin Savoy Brown also set to reprise their roles from the previous two installments.

So what the hell is Scream 7 actually about and how are all these characters going to be brought back into the mix? These are the questions we still don’t have any answers to. But in a new chat with ComicBook.com this week, writer Guy Busick does offer up some mild teasers.

For starters, he reveals that Scream 7 takes place approximately two years after the events of Scream VI, and there’s a “really cool reason” why the film ultimately became a Sidney story.

“I don’t want to give anything away about the reason [Scream 7] had to be a Sidney movie because there’s a really cool reason,” Busick tells the outlet. “In all these movies, you have to ask, ‘Why now? What is the thing Scream is commenting on now?’ Scream is always in a conversation with the audience about the state of movies, the state of horror movies and in particular, franchises.”

“There is a really specific reason why Sidney is in this movie. I will say there is a reason and we were happy with it when we cracked it,” Busick continues. “We went to Neve Campbell and said, ‘This is why. This is why Sidney now.’ Neve was like, ‘Oh, I get that.’ I pitched Kevin [Williamson] this first, too. He got it and then I pitched the studio.”

Busick stopped short of revealing the setting for Scream 7, but he did state that the film is not set in New York and that Courteney Cox’s Gale Weathers will be the one to bring Chad and Mindy Meeks-Martin to the new location where a fresh round of horror is unfolding. “It’s not New York,” he reveals. “I don’t want to be the one to spoil where it is. It’s an unspecified amount of time [after VI]. I might get contradicted by other people, but in my mind, more than two years. I would say at least two years. It could be two years, but I would say two years plus.”

Franchise newcomers include Celeste O’Connor (Ghostbusters: Afterlife), Mckenna Grace (Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire, Once Upon a Time), Sam Rechner (The Fabelmans), Asa Germann (The Boys), Anna Camp (Hysteria!), Isabel May (1883), Mark Consuelos (Live with Kelly and Mark, Riverdale, All My Children), Ethan Embry (The Devil’s Candy, Once Upon a Time), and Joel McHale (It’s a Wonderful Knife) as Sidney’s husband, Mark Evans.

Michelle Randolph (1923) and Jimmy Tatro (American Vandal) will also star.