Skeet Ulrich reveals original Scream 7 ending before Melissa Barrera was fired

9 December 2025, 12:35 | Updated: 20 December 2025, 13:15

By Sam Prance

The scrapped Scream 7 script included a huge Billy Loomis and Sam Carpenter plot twist.

Skeet Ulrich has just confirmed that the original Scream 7 script was going to bring a wild Ghostface fan theory to life.

Before Melissa Barrera was controversially fired from Scream 7 after speaking out in support of Palestine, a script was written revolving around her character Sam Carpenter. In the wake of Melissa's exit, Jenna Ortega also decided not to return as Sam's sister Tara, resulting in the film then being rewritten with original Scream star Neve Campbell at the forefront.

Details for the scrapped Scream 7 plot have remained under wraps since then, but now Billy Loomis actor Skeet has revealed exactly how the third Scream film starring Melissa as Sam was supposed to end.

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Fans of Scream will already know that Skeet returned as Billy Loomis' ghost in the fifth and sixth Scream films. In the movies, he appears in visions to his long-lost daughter Sam often trying to persuade her to embrace her dark side.

Talking to Entertainment Weekly about whether he will be in Scream 7, Skeet said: "I'm not. When we talked about coming back for 5, it was a three-picture arc for Billy Loomis to slowly turn his daughter into the killer."

It seems as though Scream 7 was going to end with us finding out that Sam had eventually become Ghostface.

Skeet added: "Obviously, those things didn't pan out, given certain things that happened. But, no, I know nothing about the seventh."

Speaking to Flickering Myth back in 2023, Melissa coincidentally said: "It would be my dream for Sam to be Ghostface."

She also told Digital Spy: "She’s the hero but she’s also kind of the villain. It's this contradiction in her that I find fascinating."

Read more about Scream here:

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