This is something I came up with as my way of sort-of concluding the series, though the story does require some ret-conning to the other sequels.
My Scream 5 (titled either Scream: Legacy or Scream: Bloodlines) would feature Sidney having a (high school- or college-aged) teenage son, named Josh Neil Prescott, who is a major protagonist. He is very much like his mother, and to avoid the cliché of a kid hating his parent(s) for some stupid reason, I instead write Josh as, despite being known as the son of Sidney the victim/survivor/star, he still whole-heartedly loves her regardless of her "reputation", and does what he can to make her happy and safe. He's essentially saying, "I know what you've been through, Mom. But I don't care what anybody thinks about you, I love you, no matter what" type thing. So yeah, my story would focus on Legacy, Love and Death as central themes.
But then, another Ghostface Killer appears, this time apparently targeting Josh and his friends. After a couple days of near run-ins with the killer, he eventually decides to prepare himself to fight the killer on his own. He obviously knows he quite possibly not going to survive the fight, but if it meant protecting his own mother then so be it.
There's not much story I have written in the first two-thirds, but I'm definitely on the final third, which has a battle-ready Josh combatting the killer in the house they're in throughout the night. I thought it'd be cool to have Sid and Josh working together fighting the killer, teamwork, but Josh's main goal is to get her out of the danger, and he goes back alone again to end it all. Or as my dialogue would put it: SID: "Don't go back, you'll die." JOSH: "Better me than you."
In my story, the main killer would possibly be Hank Loomis, the Loomis patriarch. I'm thinking of a twist that reveals Josh to be Billy's "son" - and Hank's grandson - to kind-of tie together the Prescott/Loomis thread (hence ret-con). His motive: If Sid could take away his family, then Hank could take away hers: Josh. Josh and Hank would have their final confrontation, in which Josh ends up being wounded and stabbed brutally but still fighting, finally defeating and killing Hank. But badly wounded, Josh would collapse, calling chokingly for his Mom before falling unconscious, but Sid and the cavalry manages to reach him in time to save him.
I thought of an epilogue set in the hospital, in which a recovering Josh wakes up in the ICU, and gets up out of his room and, despite the piercing pain he still had, goes about to search for Sid, to see with his own eyes if she's alive, and when he does, he's just relieved, but buckled in pain. I'd have it end with Sidney and Josh, mother and son, embracing each other, having lived to see another day. It would be a teary scene, as he's happy to see her okay, and she now having seen just how far her own son is willing to go for her, even in the face of death. So yeah, this mother-son relationship is what motivated me to write my own S5.
The story is really flawed, sounds fan-made and is more like Aliens and Halloween H20, but since I am a huge loving fan of Sidney Prescott, this story is basically my way of giving her a sense of closure, and to give her someone who would deeply care for her as much as she would. I mean, after all she has been through, I wanted to give her the happy ending I believe she deserves.
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