Highlights
- Gale Weathers is rumored to return in Scream 7, where she may finally achieve her goal of winning the Pulitzer prize.
- The Pulitzer is considered the highest award in print journalism, and Gale has been striving to win it since the first Scream movie.
- Gale’s potential Pulitzer win could lead to a completion of her character’s arc, possibly opening up the franchise for new storylines.
Scream 7 is set to begin filming at some point this year, with Kevin Williamson set to direct the upcoming sequel, with Neve Campbell the only cast member confirmed thus far. However, Courteney Cox, who has played Gale Weathers in every Scream movie, is likely to return, and is rumored to be finalizing a deal to officially sign on to star in the sequel. This has got fans speculating over what could be in store for Gale in Scream 7, with a particular plot point from the previous movies being a candidate for a follow-up and completion of Gale’s arc.
Gale Weathers’ ultimate goal has always been to win the Pultizer prize for her contributions to journalism, with multiple true-crime books written by her about the experiences she’s had with Ghostface. Scream 6 saw Gale narrowly surviving an attack from the masked killer, which could lead to a new book about her near-death experience, and the completion of her long-time ambition of winning the coveted Pulitzer prize.
Gale Weathers’ ambition has always been to win the Pulitzer Prize.
The Pulitzer prize is considered to be the highest accolade in print journalism, and Gale Weathers’ problem has always been that she wanted to win it but has thus far failed in her attempts. There is a section for investigative journalism in the Pulitzer awards, which would be the most applicable for Gale’s particular type of work, after investigating and even helping to solve the Ghostface murders on six different occasions.
Has a cheesy tabloid journalist ever won the Pulitzer?
As far back as the first Scream movie in 1996, Gale voiced her aim of winning a Pulitzer prize to her cameraman, Kenny, after planting a camera in Stu Macher’s house to spy on the guests and hopefully land a scoop. Gale had already written a book called Wrongly Accused: The Maureen Prescott Murder, which was due for release at the end of the year, when the murders started up again in Scream.
Gale was instrumental in proving the innocence of Cotton Weary, and helping to bring down the real killers, Billy Loomis and Stu Macher, and wrote another book about their murder spree called The Woodsboro Murders. This book ended up being adapted into the Stab movie franchise. Despite the success of her books, the Pulitzer Prize still evaded her, and she once again brought up her ambition of winning the coveted award in Scream 3.
I swear on my Pulitzer prize, which I plan to win one day.
Scream 7 should finally deliver on Gale’s ambition of winning the Pulitzer prize.
|
Scream 7 |
|
|---|---|
|
Starring |
Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox (rumored), Patrick Dempsey (rumored) |
|
Written By |
Guy Busick |
|
Directed By |
Kevin Williamson |
Gale Weathers will do anything to get what she wants, but after six Ghostface attacks, multiple books written, and the movie rights sold, Gale still doesn’t have the one thing she’s always wanted: The Pultizer prize. The last time Gale’s storyline brought up the subject of her dream of winning the award was during a conversation with Detective Mark Kincaid in Scream 3, and despite her character going through many transformations and becoming less cut-throat as the series has gone on, she is well and truly back to her old self in Scream 6.
Gale has written another book between the events of Scream (2022) and Scream 6, with her motivation for recognition still a priority. Scream 7 should bite the bullet and reveal that Gale Weathers has indeed won the Pulitzer prize for her contributions to investigative journalism. After all, what other journalists have helped to solve six murder investigations in their career?
If Gale was to win the Pulitzer, it would be a completion of her overarching story, and the franchise could finally move towards either retiring her character or killing her off. Courteney Cox expressed an interest in being killed off as far back as Scream 4, but when the Scream franchise was revived in 2022, she was back on board, with her character proving to be an important connection between the past and the current generation.
Gale Weathers is the only character to appear in every Scream movie, and her appearance in Scream 7 could see her take on more of an active role after a reduced role in the last two movies, as Sidney’s story becomes the main focus once again. Gale winning the Pulitzer prize is a storyline that could be focused on if she was to play a bigger role in Scream 7, and it could even play into Ghostface’s motive. It’s about time the Scream franchise had a Ghostface killer targeting Gale for cashing in on so many murders.
Over the span of six movies, there has been a string of murder victims that Gale has written about, and made money from, so it’s quite feasible that there are victims’ families out there who could potentially snap when they hear that Gale has finally won the coveted Pulitzer prize.
Leave a Reply