‘Scream 7’ Is Bringing People Back from the Dead & Sarah Michelle Gellar Wants in on the Action

More than 25 years after her brutal demise in Scream 2, Sarah Michelle Gellar still isn’t ready to hang up her phone. The actor, best known for playing Cici Cooper in the 1997 slasher sequel, says she wants another shot at the franchise — even if her character got stabbed and thrown off a sorority balcony.

“I’m not in [Scream 7]. I tried to get in [Scream 7], nobody wanted me,” Gellar told Entertainment Tonight. “They were bringing everybody back. I kept thinking I would get a call, I didn’t get a call.”

Gellar’s character didn’t last long in Scream 2, but that hasn’t stopped the franchise from digging up the dead. The upcoming seventh installment appears to be doing just that, with the return of multiple characters previously confirmed dead — including David Arquette’s Dewey Riley, Matthew Lillard’s Stu Macher, and Scott Foley’s Roman Bridger.

“There’s a lot of people that died in all the Scream movies that are back. Skeet [Ulrich], [Matthew] Lillard. I’m just saying, I’m waiting for my call,” Gellar added, pointing to a pattern of resurrection in the series that seems to ignore the finality of death.

In horror, dead is rarely dead. The Scream universe, known for bending the rules of both genre and reality, is leaning into that even harder this time. Scream 7 is bringing back familiar faces across the board: Neve Campbell as Sidney Prescott after skipping the last film, Courteney Cox as the ever-persistent Gale Weathers, and Jasmin Savoy Brown and Mason Gooding as the Meeks-Martin twins.

Whether Gellar actually gets that call remains to be seen. But in a franchise where characters survive stab wounds, explosions, and even logic itself, it wouldn’t be the wildest twist. If fans can suspend disbelief for a killer who won’t stay down, hey, they just might do the same for Cici Cooper.

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