In the original 1996 meta-slasher, Lillard played Stu Macher, one of the two sociopathic teens acting as the masked Ghostface killer, alongside Skeet Ulrich's Billy Loomis. Stu se

Matthew Lillard, who played Stuart ‘Stu’ Macher in the first 1996 Scream movie, is returning to the franchise for Spyglass/Paramount’s Scream 7.

Matthew Lillard still likes scary movies. The actor, who starred in Wes Craven’s original “Scream” and did not return for future entries considering, well, narrative events, is joining the cast of the franchise’s upcoming seventh installment.

What a wild movie the seventh Scream is shaping up to be. With all the recent developments, it seems like the production is long past its rocky beginning and is taking on a life of its own. One way Scream 7 stays fresh is by bringing back some fan favorites,

Surprise, Sidney!” It’s the classic scary movie trope: just when you think the killer is dead, they return for a final scare — or a final Scream. 30 years after original Ghostface duo Billy Loomis (Skeet Ulrich) and Stu Macher (Matthew Lillard) failed to kill scream queen Sidney Prescott (Neve Campbell) during the 1996 Woodsboro