SCREAM Star David Arquette Teases Possible Return As Dewey And Responds To Fan Backlash (Exclusive)

Love this franchise. Dewey had a lot to do in Scream 5 and went out on a high note. His death didn't both me at all.

Considering Scream is a commentary of other slashers, he could come back so many different ways. I’m hoping for reincarnation via cult

I really didn't like 5. Weird Old Billy visions, main actress was super wooden and was completely outshined by her sister in the film, cliche and cheesy ending, new characters got barely any screen time and were killed off for the most part while returning characters either acted like idiots (Dewey) or were killed off with little respect or thought (Judy).

Here's how I would have setup the franchise instead. (Apologies if it's long and you don't care feel free to skip it.)

I still think they should have had Gale die in 5, that would have setup disheveled drunk Dewey a lot better than... "Oh they just got divorced" and they should have set it somewhere else inspired by the events of 4 where videos have began resurfacing after they were leaked/reuploaded however some of these are also videos from 3. Gale goes in and is the protagonist for the most part investigating this new copycat but Dewey (still a Sheriff) can't leave his job.

She's going around investigating multiple murders like you do in a slasher movie. Which eventually puts together that the killer is the one that leaked the videos but similar to the movie it's multiple killers and it is actually a cult like fanbase that worships Stu who surprise is alive and in prison. (Get rid of the weird ghost Billy bs) The movie would end with Gale's death as she watches a monitor filled with Ghostface masks appear in video calls on the screen.

Not the greatest but it would setup this sequel to be the big return of a bunch of characters with Dewey who is actually hardened and competent but drinking himself to death because of Gale's death. He teams up with Sydney who having a family now is basically like Lori Strode from the new Halloween she's paranoid, scared, and angry. This movie would essentially be aliens to alien. A lot of killers and a lot of kills but the protagonists taking out a lot of them. You'd have returning characters and new characters come in that are linked to the other movies similar to the new cast as well as characters like Kirby and Judy. We'd have scenes where Stu is essentially Hannibal Lector talking to Dewy and Syd in prison although ultimately he just gives insight and isn't involved in the new cult but is so very pleased his and Billy's legacy lives on. Dewey would eventually die in this one, not because he was stupid and walked up on the killer but because he was swarmed after taking some out. Syd who's getting increasingly pissed off especially now that another original has been killed due to this cult decides that she, Kirby, Judy, and the other targets of the cult related to other characters hold up in the high school, the same school from the first film. Yadadada people die both killers and survivors leading to the leader of the cult, Cotton's bastard child who's pissed off that this story has robbed him of his father. Where this would be different is that yeah they would fight, Syd would get the upper hand and is about to kill him so pissed off at this kid for being the cause of her friends death but she stops and says enough people have died and she actually talks him down. No jump scare attacks no she turns away and he trys to kill her. Nope Syd beats Ghostface once and for all by ending it. This kid (mid 20s) goes to jail, but not before what he set into motion already takes place. Stu is broken out of prison...