This could've gone either way. Iconic Scream actor Skeet Ulrich recently revealed that Melissa Barrera's firing from Scream 7 actually cost him the job as well. He also revealed that the three-movie arc was for him to ultimately turn Barrera's character into a killer in the original plan for Scream 7.
On one hand it sucks that her firing cost multiple people their jobs, but on the other hand, it would've been an extremely predictable killer reveal.
“When we talked about coming back for [Scream] 5, it was a three-picture arc for Billy Loomis to slowly turn his daughter into the killer. Obviously, those things didn’t pan out, given certain things that happened.”
Source: Entertainment Weekly
