Roman’sScream 7return gets a new response from actor Scott Foley, who confirms the extent of his role. Following the success of the sixth film in 2023, the world of Wes Craven’sScreamfranchise is set to return with a seventh installment next year, which will feature original movie screenwriter Kevin Williamson in the director’s chair. In addition toScream 7castreturns from Neve Campbell and Courteney Cox as Sidney Prescott and Gale Weathers, respectively, it has also been announced thatScream 3Ghostface actor Foley will be appearing in the movie.
During a recent appearance onLIVE with Kelly and Mark, Foley confirms that he won’t be playing another character and that he will indeed be reprising his role as Roman inScream 7. The actor doesn’t dish about how exactly his character returns from the dead, but he does reveal that the role will be “small.” Check out his comment below:
“I had just had a conversation with Kevin Williamson who’s directing — wrote the first few Screams, is directing this one. Andhe wanted me to come back and play a small part. And I was so excited to sort of revisit this character even though he died in the first one.”
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Roman dies at theend ofScream 3, suffering a handful of stab wounds before being shot in the head. His death seemed fairly definitive andit’s possible that the upcoming sequel won’t actually be bringing him back from the dead. The two most recentScreammovies, for example, featured Melissa Barrera’s Sam Carpenter seeing Skeet Ulrich’s Billy Loomis, her biological father, as a mental projection despite that character’s death in the original 1996 movie.
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Since Roman is Sidney’s half-brother,it’s certainly possible that Campbell’s character will see him in some kind of vision. As with Ulrich’s return as Billy, this would mean that Foley is digitally de-aged to look the age that he was inScream 3. The fact that Foley confirmed hisrole inScream 7is small also supports this theory, because if Roman was actually alive, it seems likely that his role in the story would be larger.
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If Roman is actually alive inScream 7, this could fit with the franchise’s somewhat ridiculous tone, but it could also reinforce a dangerous precedent. Even though theScreammovies have a great deal of humor in them,death is generally permanent, and that keeps the stakes high. Some characters' fates are left more ambiguous, such as Kirby Reed’s (Hayden Panettiere) inScream 4or Stu Macher’s (Matthew Lillard) inScream, meaning those characters returning doesn’t feel too farfetched. If a character who was shot in the head returns, however, that could be a stretch.
It is now confirmed thatLillard will reprise his role as Stu inScream 7.
Bringing Roman back as a vision seems like the best option forScream 7, and it’s one that wouldn’t feel out of place after the last two films brought Billy back in this way. It will be important, however, that the franchise not overdo this gimmick, asit could end up feeling too much like fan service. Considering how self-aware and clever theScreamfranchise often is, falling into the nostalgia trap that other reboots and sequels sometimes fall into is best avoided.
Source:LIVE with Kelly and Mark
