I’d argue a lot more than that killed that franchise lol. Although that movie was still and is still one of the highest grossing in the franchise.The average Scream fan would be mad asf if that happened. No one wants to wait 15 yrs to see the main and favorite character get killed off. That’s like killing Jamie Lee Curtis off from Halloween like they did that one Halloween movie in the beginning of the scene and it essentially killed the entire franchise until it was revived in 2007.
Also Jamie asked to be killed. She was furious they were doing a sequel and wanted out