The next put up incorporates SPOILERS for the ending of Scream VI.
For some time now, there’s been a preferred fan idea on the market on the planet of Scream fandom that Stu Macher (performed by Matthew Lillard) from the unique Scream movie isn’t actually useless. It’s not exhausting to see why. In slasher motion pictures usually, and Scream motion pictures particularly, it sometimes takes loads to kill somebody. Folks get stabbed, and typically even shot, and so they hold coming. Because the slasher film “rule” goes, even when the dangerous guys look useless, they all the time come again one final time, till one of many heroes shoots them within the head.
However Stu didn’t get that form of conclusive, remaining ending in Scream. His loss of life — if it was a loss of life — was a tv dropped on his head. Which, within the grand scheme (or grand Scream) of issues, is just not fairly as definitive as tossing somebody off a constructing or stabbing them 25 occasions. And actually, as soon as upon a time, there was a model of Scream 3 the place Stu was going to return again because the shock villain. However the movie was revised and Stu was eliminated. So followers hold ready and ready for the film the place Ghostface’s id is revealed and it seems to be Stu, who has been hiding for 25 years or one thing to get revenge on whoever. (Admittedly, the motive a part of the entire thing — and what the dude did for 1 / 4 century — is form of the place the idea falls aside.)
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It hasn’t occurred but. And in Scream VI, one of many new Ghostfaces is killed by dropping a TV on their head. And if that homage looks like a selected callback to Scream and to this fan idea, you’re proper. The creators of Scream VI gave an intensive spoiler interview to Selection, and when requested whether or not that kill was “to show to followers that [the TV to the head] killed Stu, co-director Tyler Gillett stated definitively: “Sure.”
He then added, “That’s scripted, particularly, as a brutal and definitive kill. Man and Jamie wrote the TV falling on Ethan’s head as a brutal and definitive kill.”
That sounds prefer it ought to put this idea to relaxation. However! When the topic of whether or not Matthew Lillard may nonetheless return to the franchise got here up, Gillett and the opposite Scream creators didn’t rule it out. “Something’s doable,” stated producer William Sherak, whereas producer Paul Neinstein added “Characters can come out and in! There’s alternative ways to do it.”
So mainly the idea is as useless as Stu … who would possibly nonetheless come again some day. Scream VI is now enjoying in theaters.
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