Some moments in this franchise feel inevitable only in hindsight. The newly released Scream 7 featurette places its focus exactly where longtime fans have quietly hoped it would for years: Kevin Williamson, finally stepping behind the camera to direct a Scream film for the very first time.
For those who have followed Scream since 1996, Williamson’s promotion from architect to director doesn’t read like a surprise — it reads like destiny catching up.
In Your Favorite Scary Movie, the definitive chronicle of the franchise by Ashley Cullins, Neve Campbell revealed how personal the invitation truly was:
“I got to ask him, and he just burst into tears. And I started crying too because I was happy for him and happy that we’re going to get to have this experience together. It was a very beautiful, very sweet moment—and of course it should be Kevin. Absolutely he should direct one of these. He knows these characters and these films better than anyone.”
That sentiment echoes throughout the featurette. This is not a passing of the torch — it’s the torch returning home.
As Neve herself reinforces:
“I’ve always thought it would be a wonderful thing to have Kevin Williamson direct. He knows these characters and these films better than anybody.”
From Student to Steward
Williamson’s emotional grounding in the franchise is inseparable from Wes Craven, the mentor who shaped both the series and the writer himself.
The featurette includes quiet, reverent footage from the original Scream, showing Williamson observing Craven at work — a reminder that authorship in this franchise has always been collaborative, learned, and earned.
Williamson reflects:
“As the writer of the first one, the second one, the fourth one, it is so personal to me, and I was able to work with my hero, Wes Craven, who taught me everything.”
And then, the thesis statement:
“People ask me all the time, have I always wanted to direct a Scream movie? It’s like, yes, with all my heart. Now we’re here at part seven. And it’s all led to this. It’s gone so far beyond my widest dreams.”
If Scream 7 is about legacy confronting itself, there may be no more literal embodiment of that theme.
The Cast Feels the Weight — and the Trust
The featurette also makes clear that Williamson’s presence is not symbolic. It’s active, engaged, and deeply felt on set.
Mason Gooding describes him as:
“Very creative, engaging director.”
Jasmin Savoy Brown is even more direct:
“He’s a legend. This franchise wouldn’t exist without him.”
And Isabel May, whose character places family and inheritance at the center of this chapter, offers perhaps the most telling endorsement:
“The fact this is the first Scream that he’s directing, there’s no other Scream I would want to be part of.”
That’s not hype. That’s confidence in authorship.
Mindy Meeks-Martin and the Power of Small Choices
Outside the featurette, Jasmin Savoy Brown also shared an Instagram story that quietly expands Scream 7’s cultural footprint — without speeches or spotlights.
She confirmed: “I’ve officially made Mindy she/they.”
Adding context: “In the midst of so much ugliness in the world… 🧊 being an obvious horror, there is a clear attack on our queer and trans community. I think small on screen choices, such as a character in a major franchise wearing a pin that validates their gender as outside of the binary, matters.”
Mindy has always carried that weight in plain sight. She became the first openly queer character in the franchise in Scream (2022), and in both the fifth and sixth films, she wore pins she personally brought to set — first a rainbow, then a Black Lives Matter pin. Quiet gestures, framed deliberately.
That continuity now lives alongside another milestone. Kevin Williamson, directing a Scream film for the first time, also becomes the first gay director in the franchise, working on a chapter that includes his husband, Victor Turpin, in the cast.
It’s all been leading here — Scream 7 cuts into theaters on February 27.
