Courtney Cox Will Reprise Gale Weathers Role In Scream 7

Weathers report incoming, folks — there's a strong Gale heading straight for Woodsboro! Over the last few weeks, we've been getting a flurry of eye-catching updates on Kevin Williamson's upcoming slasher sequel Scream VII. Just this week, Ghostbusters: Afterlife and Frozen Empire breakout McKenna Grace has joined the cast, with Mason Gooding — the rebooted franchise's seemingly unkillable Chad Meeks-Martin — confirming a return to the fray, too. Now, per Variety's reporting, Scream icon Courtney Cox has finally closed a deal to reprise her role as intrepid reporter Gale Weathers in Williamson's movie.

We first shared the news that Cox was in talks to come back for another round with Ghostface all the way back in March. And in the months since, confirmation of Neve Campbell's return as Sidney Prescott and whispers of Scream III star Patrick Dempsey's interest in bringing back Mark Kincaid only made Cox's return as Weathers seem all the more inevitable. And now that this integral piece of the seventh Scream movie's puzzle has fallen into place, the path for director Williamson and returning Scream VI co-writers Guy Busick and James Vanderbilt to bring the franchise's past and future together after a tumultuous past twelve months behind the scenes is beginning to look a lot clearer.

We don't know the plot of this one just yet, and with the dramatic departures of reboot leads Melissa Barrera and Jenna Ortega late last year, even guessing at what could be coming next seems foolish (though we'll always be campaigning for the return of Matthew Lillard's Stu Macher.) But with newcomers Celeste O’Connor, Asa Germann, and Isabel May — the last of whom is set to play one of Sid's daughters — joining the call sheet alongside a solid set of legacy names, there's plenty for longtime fans and the next generation of Screamers (as nobody is calling them) to be excited for. We'll find out how Scream VII fares in the franchise's post-Barrera and Ortega era when it slashes its way into cinemas on Friday 27 February, 2026.