The only way to save this franchise now that the two actresses are out.
Just make a "Stab" movie and start a new series. It would explain why Sidney isn't there either.
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So within the series continuity, we have 6 Scream movies and at least 8 Stab movies.
With this mess, instead of giving us the real Scream 7, they could give us "Stab 10," and it could be "as based upon the events of Scream 7." So we wouldn't see Melissa C and Jenna O, we would see new actresses portraying the Stab counterparts of Sam and Tara. So we'd get to see the events of Scream 7, possibly unchanged but for the cast. And so the characters would have been "recast" for an entry, only not really, since they'd be in a Stab movie. This would allow for a lot of meta commentary, and they could always say later "Stab 10" isn't how Scream 7 *really* happened, it was exaggerated for the movies. Only problem is that would exclude the rest, Sidney, Gale, Kirby, the twins, from returning, unless they all in-universe decided that they wanted to play heightened versions of themselves within a Stab movie, which would be ridiculous but I guess could work.
That's exactly what I was thinking. I can't remember which was the most recent Stab movie, but a spinoff would have to start as a sequel. They could pretty much write anything at that point.
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