Despite her wishes for a higher body count, Alison Brie hopes the Scream franchise could pull off a resurrection in her honor.
The 2x Golden Globe nominee, who played doomed book publicist Rebecca Walters in Scream 4, recently pitched her character’s return for Scream 7 after several familiar faces were announced to be back from the dead.
“Alison was famously in Scream 4. I feel like with new Scream rules, even though she dies brutally, we could bring her back,” her husband Dave Franco noted on the Shut Up Evan podcast, to which she agreed, “Yeah, where’s my role in Scream 7?”
After news that David Arquette, Matthew Lillard and Scott Foley would reprise their deceased characters in the seventh installment, following Skeet Ulrich‘s return in the previous two films, Brie said, “I hear tons of people are coming back. … I mean, Hayden [Panettiere] came back in [Scream] 6.”
The loophole has also encouraged franchise alums Sarah Michelle Gellar and Parker Posey to campaign for their characters’ returns.
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With the most recent two sequels seeing the survival of “core four” characters Sam Carpenter (Melissa Barrera), Tara Carpenter (Jenna Ortega), Chad Meeks-Martin (Mason Gooding) and Mindy Meeks-Martin (Jasmin Savoy Brown), Brie also shared her “problem with the current era” of the slasher franchise.
“Too many people live,” she said. “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.”
After original character Dewey Riley (Arquette) was killed in Scream (2022), Brie admitted, “That was very sad. That was a mistake. Keep the main three.”
Neve Campbell reprises her “final girl” role as Sidney Prescott in Scream 7, which is set to hit theaters on Feb. 27, 2026. She joins returning stars Courteney Cox, Arquette, Foley, Lillard, Gooding and Brown, as well as newcomers Isabel May, Celeste O’Connor, Asa Germann, Mckenna Grace, Sam Rechner, Michelle Randolph, Jimmy Tatro, Anna Camp, Joel McHale, Mark Consuelos and Ethan Embry.
Meanwhile, Brie is preparing to make her feature directorial debut with a female-driven horror film she co-wrote with Alice Stanley Jr.
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