This article contains Scream 7 spoilersIt may have made a ton of money at the box office, but the seventh Scream movie was pummeled by critics, and even its Rotten Tomatoes audience score still lingers at around 70%. One of the main complaints from critics and fans alike about the latest entry in the franchise was that the killer reveal was very weak. Having initially set up the return of Stu Macher (Matthew Lillard) who had apparently died in the original movie, Scream 7 eventually explained his sudden reemergence and taunting appearances as the result of AI videos created by two killers who had teamed up to get their revenge on Sidney Prescott: Jessica Bowden (Anna Camp) a neighbor who had idolized Sydney after reading her autobiography, and a tech-savvy man called Marco (Ethan Embry) who Jessica had met at a mental insitution and who was seemingly just along for the ride.cnx.cmd.push(function() {cnx({playerId: "106e33c0-3911-473c-b599-b1426db57530",}).render("0270c398a82f44f49c23c16122516796");});Anyone who was disappointed by the Jessica and Marco twist and suspected that the real Stu may have originally been part of the film’s ending may find some comfort in the knowledge that it did very nearly happen. During a recent panel at FAN EXPO in Denver (via ScreenRant), Lillard confirmed that he and director Kevin Williamson actually filmed a post-credits scene for Scream 7 that would have revealed Stu Macher was very much alive.“[I told Kevin Williamson], we spent the entire movie proving that Stu is alive, and then if he doesn’t come out that door people are going to be bummed,” Lillard explained. “So, what we should do, is we should shoot a post-credit sequence where it’s just Stu watching TV somewhere, alive. Yeah, we shot it. I will say, when they showed it [to test audiences], they showed it without credits. So, they go to the end and then they show me in a reflection watching TV, and it didn’t work…So, it didn’t work because they didn’t test it right, but I think it would have been completely [different with the credits].”Though this post-credits scene was cut from the final version of the movie, Lillard still seems to have a lot of love for the Scream franchise, and the door may yet be open for him to reprise his role as the real Stu Macher in the future. In the meantime, Poker Face showrunners Lilla Zuckerman and Nora Zuckerman are said to be working on a script for Scream 8 with Paramount and Spyglass after the seventh film set a franchise global record debut of $97.2M.The post Scream Star Confirms Fan Suspicions About Iconic Villain’s Fate appeared first on Den of Geek.