It ’s the uncommon movie maker who can claim even a singlefranchiseto their credit , but the recent Wes Craven has managed to do it twice . The director who introduced the earth to Freddy Krueger in 1984 in the originalA Nightmare on Elm Streetalso , with the aid of screenwriter Kevin Williamson , deconstructed the horror genre in 1996’sScream . That latter pic has spawn four sequels , with a fifth due in March 2023 .
Just do n’t expect Stu Macher ( Matthew Lillard ) to come out in it .
In a recent consultation withCollider , Williamson put to rest an suffer lover possibility that Macher — who was one half of the serial - killing teenage yoke in the original — will rise from the dead . “ No , he ’s all in , ” Williamson say . “ I call back that started because of the college scene , the frat party scene because [ Lillard is ] standing in the background signal . ”
Williamson is relate to a scene inScream 2(1997 ) , where Lillard can beseen briefly(and barely ) during a college dorm company sequence . “ He just get along to confab the solidifying that night , ” Williamson said . Had he been Macher , it ’s likely Sidney Prescott ( Neve Campbell ) would have acknowledge the presence of her former nemesis .
Instead of treating it like anEaster Egg , some fans imagined it was a hint that Stu could riposte despite being stabbed repeatedly and fry by a tv set that had been dropped on his head , which is how he cope with his demise in the original film . ( His Centennial State - conspirator , Skeet Ulrich ’s Billy Loomis , madebrief appearances in 2022’sScreamas a hallucination digest by his daughter Sam , play by Melissa Barrera . )
While Lillard did n’t physically appear in the lastScream , his voice can be heard : Lillard did thevoiceoverfor Ghostface in the fabrication - within - a - fictionStab 8trailer , and as a Edgar Guest at a house party held at the Macher household .
