‘Scream 6’ Was Specifically Designed to Debunk a Fan Theory

The following put up accommodates SPOILERS for the ending of Scream VI.

For a whereas now, there’s been a standard 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 lifeless. It’s not arduous to see why. In slasher motion pictures usually, and Scream motion pictures specifically, it sometimes takes a lot to kill somebody. People get stabbed, and generally even shot, and so they hold coming. As the slasher film “rule” goes, even when the unhealthy guys look lifeless, they all the time come again one final time, till one of many heroes shoots them within the head.

But Stu didn’t get that type of conclusive, closing 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, just isn’t fairly as definitive as tossing somebody off a constructing or stabbing them 25 instances. And actually, as soon as upon a time, there was a model of Scream 3 the place Stu was going to come again because the shock villain. But the movie was revised and Stu was eliminated. So followers hold ready and ready for the film the place Ghostface’s identification 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 a quarter century — is type of the place the speculation 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 particular callback to Scream and to this fan idea, you’re proper. The creators of Scream VI gave an intensive spoiler interview to Variety, and when requested whether or not that kill was “to prove to fans that [the TV to the head] killed Stu, co-director Tyler Gillett said definitively: “Yes.”

He then added, “That is scripted, specifically, as a brutal and definitive kill. Guy 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. But! When the topic of whether or not Matthew Lillard might nonetheless return to the franchise got here up, Gillett and the opposite Scream creators didn’t rule it out. “Anything’s possible,” stated producer William Sherak, whereas producer Paul Neinstein added “Characters can come in and out! There’s different ways to do it.”

So principally the speculation is as lifeless as Stu … who would possibly nonetheless come again some day. Scream VI is now enjoying in theaters.