Scream 6: Cast, Trailer, Release Date, and Everything We Know So Far

Warning: Spoilers for Scream (2022) below***.***

We're not in Woodsboro anymore. Ghostface is back, and this time, the killer is out for more blood than we've ever seen. Scream 6 just got an accelerated release date, a poster, an official full-length trailer, and a bunch of first-look images — if you weren't on the edge of your seat before, you definitely are now.

On January 14, 2022, the fifth installment in the Scream franchise was released theatrically and starred Wednesday lead Jenna Ortega, Melissa Barrera, Jasmin Savoy Brown, Mason Gooding, Dylan Minnette, Jack Quaid, and Mikey Madison. The horror film shared the same name as the original meta whodunit 1996 film that redefined the slasher genre, and was the first movie in the franchise to not be directed by filmmaker and horror pioneer Wes Craven, who died in 2015. 

Each film in the series (with the exception of Scream 6, but more on that below) takes place in the sleepy suburb of Woodsboro, California and follows Sidney Prescott and others fighting back against a revolving door of masked killers who all take on the anonymous cloak of Ghostface. 2022's Scream was a direct sequel to 2011's Scream 4, which starred Neve Campbell reprising her role as badass final girl Sidney Prescott, as well as Emma Roberts, Hayden Panettiere, Anthony Anderson, Alison Brie, Adam Brody, Rory Culkin, and original film stars David Arquette and Courteney Cox.

Now, the newest cast survivors of Scream (2022) must fight for their lives once more, this time in New York City. Below, find out everything you need to know about Scream 6, including plot details, new and returning cast members, confirmed release date, trailer and first-look photos, and more.

Is there a trailer for Scream 6?

An initial teaser trailer for Scream 6 had been released back in December 2022, showing the four survivors of Scream (2022) on a NYC subway car on Halloween. Gradually, they start to notice more than a few riders wearing Ghostface costumes… and one of them isn't just playing dress-up. “In a city of millions, no one hears you scream,” read the on-screen text as Ghostface attacks.

On January 19, 2023, Paramount Pictures released the official full-length trailer for Scream 6. The trailer opens with Melissa Barrera and Jenna Ortega being chased into a bodega. After a frighteningly quick and bloody brawl, Ghostface ends up being armed not just with their classic blade, but a shotgun.

“I had this secret,” says Melissa's character Sam in a voiceover. “There's a darkness inside of me. It followed me here. And it's gonna keep coming for us.” The trailer drives home the promise of a faster, stronger, angrier, bloodier, different Ghostface. Watch it for yourself and get goosebumps below:

Who is in the cast of Scream 6?

Each of the four young survivors of Scream (2022) will reprise their roles in Scream 6. Jenna Ortega returns as Tara Carpenter; Melissa Barrera as Sam Carpenter, Tara's older half-sister; and Jasmin Savoy Brown and Mason Gooding as twin siblings Mindy and Chad Meeks-Martin.

Hayden Panettiere, who starred in 2011's Scream 4, will make her official comeback as Kirby Reed in the sixth movie. “She's come a long way,” Hayden told EW. "What happened to her has obviously impacted her life, and it sends her in a certain direction, but she's still the same old Kirby at the heart of it. She's just a little older, a little wiser, but just as spitfire-y, and snarky, and all that good stuff."

The only returning cast member from the original film series, however, is Courtney Cox as headstrong journalist Gale Weathers. Neve Campbell will not be reprising her role as Sidney Prescott, due to a pay dispute. 

In June 2022, she released a statement addressing the issue: “Sadly I won’t be making the next Scream film. As a woman, I have had to work extremely hard in my career to establish my value, especially when it comes to Scream. I felt the offer that was presented to me did not equate to the value I have brought to the franchise. It’s been a very difficult decision to move on. To all my Scream fans, I love you. You’ve always been so incredibly supportive to me. I’m forever grateful to you and to what this franchise has given me over the past 25 years."

In August 2022, she told People that she believed the offer she received was sexist in nature. “I honestly don’t believe that if I were a man and had done five installments of a huge blockbuster franchise over 25 years, that the number that I was offered would be the number that would be offered to a man,” said Campbell. "And in my soul, I just couldn’t do that. I couldn’t walk on set feeling that — feeling undervalued and feeling the unfairness, or lack of fairness, around that.”

New cast members of Scream 6 include Devyn Nekoda, Josh Segarra, Liana Liberato, Jack Champion, Spider-Man's Tony Revolori, and Samara Weaving. Dermot Mulroney has also been cast as Detective Bailey and Henry Czerny as Professor Freddie.

What will Scream 6 be about?

Per the film's official logline, Scream VI or Scream 6 continues the saga "with the four survivors of the Ghostface killings as they leave Woodsboro behind and start a fresh chapter.” The young survivors hope to begin this fresh chapter in the city that never sleeps. But Ghostface has other plans. Scream 6 will follow Mindy, Chad, and Tara as they attend the fictional Blackmore University in the city, with Tara's sister Sam joining them in efforts to protect Tara.

"These kids are running away, and Ghostface is still finding them in the most beautiful city but also the most terrifying because it's so crowded and it can be aggressive," Melissa Barrera, who plays Sam, told Entertainment Weekly in a new cast interview.

"At the top of the film we see my character Tara avoiding her trauma and desperately trying to reclaim her teenage experience and become normal college student," Jenna Ortega told EW. “There's a lot of tension between her and Sam, she feels as though she's too protective and unwilling to allow them both to move on. She feels suffocated.”

Cast and crew have also revealed that Scream 6 will deliver the most intense Ghostface audiences have ever seen.

“Ghostface gets a lot more intimidating,” Jenna told Entertainment Tonight last summer. “I just read part of the script, and it just gets more and more gory. I think that this is probably the most aggressive and violent version of Ghostface we’ve ever seen, which I think will really be fun to shoot.” We are so ready.

When will Scream 6 be released?

Though previously slated for March 31, Scream 6 will now hit theaters three weeks earlier on March 10, 2023.

Are there any first-look photos from Scream 6?

Yes! Below, take your first sneak peek at Scream 6 with seven brand-new stills from the movie. Get your first look at Hayden Panettiere's return, our surviving quartet, and the new Ghostface in action.

This story will continue to be updated as news about Scream 6 breaks.