Thestory of the nextScreamsequel (Scream VII for those keeping score at home)is coming into focus with the news that the movie will feature the grown daughter one of one of the franchises original heroes, Sidney Prescott, played by Neve Campbell.After sitting outScream VI, Campbell is expected to return for the film as well.PerVariety, the character of Sidneys daughter will be played by Isabel May, who is known for portraying Elsa Dutton on the Yellowstonespinoffs1883and1923.ParamountParamountloading...READ MORE: 10 Horror Movies So Extreme They Made People SickScream 7has not had an easy development process, despite comingon the heels of two fairly successful franchise-revitalizing legacyquels, 2022sScream and 2023s Scream VI. While those films featured the surviving originalScreamcharacters to some degree, including Campbells Sidney plus Courteney Coxs Gale Weathers and David Arquettes Dewey Riley, theirmain stars were a new generation of younger actors. Most centrally, they followed a pair of sisters, played by Melissa Barrera and Jenna Ortega, who turn out to have a connection to the original Ghostface.But then Barrera was fired from Scream VII, allegedly over controversial social media posts, and Ortega dropped out of the film as well. The projects director, Christopher Landon, then left as well, and later said publicly that the gig was a dream job that turned into a nightmare.Eventually, Kevin Williamson, the co-creator of the franchise anda writer onScream,Scream 2, andScream 4, came aboard to direct. It is his first time directing a movie in the series, and only the second time in his career that hes directed a feature film.The recent sequelsdid establishthat Sidney had started a family betweenScream 4 andScream, but Im not sure the math checks out for her to have a daughter as old as Isabel May. According to Wikipedia, her first childwas born in roughly 2013. May is 24 years old. So either the film will be set a few years in the future, May will be playing much younger than her real age, or the film will just retcon what theyd previously established about Sidneys family.Scream 7is scheduled to open in theaters on February 27, 2026.Get our free mobile appEvery Scream Movie RankedGhostface has slashed his way through more than two decades of horror movies. Heres how they all stack up against each other.