
Please be warned: this article contains spoilers for Scream 7. If you haven’t seen the movie yet, proceed with caution! As fans know, Matthew Lillard returned as Stu Macher, a killer from the original Scream, in a surprising twist. While Stu didn’t literally come back from the dead, the new killers used artificial intelligence to convincingly impersonate him. In a recent interview with Esquire, director Christopher Williamson explained that the idea for this twist came from writer Guy Busick. Williamson initially wondered how the AI concept would work and if audiences would be disappointed that Stu wasn’t truly back. They even filmed scenes both with and without the AI element to see what worked best, wanting to have the best of both worlds.