Scream 7 has the perfect opportunity to bring back a character who has not appeared in the franchise for more than two and a half decades. The slasher series kicked off with the 1996 hit of the same name, which was written by Kevin Williamson and directed by Wes Craven. That movie followed horror movie fans Billy Loomis (Skeet Ulrich) and Stu Macher (Matthew Lillard) inventing their own slasher character, later known as Ghostface (voiced by Roger L. Jackson), and going on a murder rampage to obscure the fact that they are primarily targeting Billy’s girlfriend Sidney Prescott (Neve Campbell).

When the franchise was revived with a 2022 legacy sequel and its 2023 follow-up, Ghostface’s new targets were descendants of the original characters, namely Billy’s daughter Sam Carpenter (Melissa Barrera), her half-sister Tara (Jenna Ortega), and film geek Randy Meeks’ (Jamie Kennedy) twin niece and nephew Mindy (Jasmin Savoy Brown) and Chad Meeks-Martin (Mason Gooding). While the Carpenters will not be appearing in the upcoming Scream 7, the twins will return alongside Sidney, Gale Weathers (Courteney Cox), and characters who are presumed ᴅᴇᴀᴅ including Stu, Gale’s love interest Dewey Riley (David Arquette), and Scream 3‘s Ghostface Roman Bridger (Scott Foley).

Randy Has To Return In Scream 7

The Twins’ Appearance Is Probably Linked To His Character

So far, it seems that Scream 7 is set to be the modern installment that engages most with the legacy of the original three Scream movies. Because of this, it would be wrong to not include Randy Meeks in some capacity. His character was central to the original trilogy, explaining the rules of the horror genre to his fellow survivors to the point that he appeared via a pre-recorded videotape in Scream 3 following his death in Scream 2. The necessity of his appearance is underscored by a comment from the upcoming movie’s screenwriter Guy Busick during an interview with ComicBook, which can be read below:

It was an organic way why [the Meeks-Martin twins] would be in this movie. I don’t want to spoil anything, but I will say [they get linked with Sidney] through Gale. She’s the connective tissue in 5 and 6 and she’s in this. New York was obviously a big part of that. She bonded with those four and there’s a reason why these two come to this town where the action is happening.

If Ghostface’s new rampage is specifically connected to the twins in a way that it isn’t to the Carpenter sisters, it would stand to reason that it is somehow linked to Randy, the brother of their mother, Martha Meeks (Heather Matarazzo). While it’s unclear if Stu, Roman, and Dewey will appear as hallucinations (as was the case with Billy in 2022’s Scream and 2023’s Scream VI) or if their deaths will be retconned, Randy could be the perfect character to appear via hallucination to Chad and Mindy, especially if the movie indeed involves them directly grappling with their family legacy.

Randy’s Return Would Bring The Legacy Cast Full Circle

He’s The Only Major Legacy Character Who Has Been Left Behind

Randy’s appearance alongside the other returning characters in Scream 7 would also allow the franchise’s new branch to close the book on the original characters in a satisfying way. It is the perfect place to cap off a new trilogy, because the majority of the franchise’s major legacy characters are making or have made appearances in either the upcoming movie, Scream VI, or its 2022 predecessor, including Scream 4‘s Judy Hicks (Marley Shelton) and Kirby Reed (Hayden Panettiere). As the franchise continues, it’ll likely focus more on the new characters, meaning that this may be Randy’s last chance to return.

Not only is Scream 7 the perfect place for a Randy cameo because of the twins’ return and the trilogy-capping nature of the movie, it would bring the story of the original legacy characters full circle by giving all of the major recurring survivors from the trilogy one final chance to appear onscreen together after 26 years. The last time that Randy, Gale, Dewey, and Sidney have all been in the same movie was 2000’s Scream 3, so a reunion in the 2026 sequel (even if one or more of the characters are technically ᴅᴇᴀᴅ) would be a major occasion.

Source(s): ComicBook