Ok, not gonna lie, this is one of the weirdest bits of Scream news yet.
So we all know that the highly anticipated Scream VII is currently filming in Atlanta and we know that it’ll be a mix of the new generation and the OGs (that’s what the kids say, right?) including Neve Campbell and Courtenay Cox returning as Sidney and Gale but we also expected Scream 3’s Patrick Dempsey to return as detective Mark Kincaid who, according to the established lore, was married to Sidney after the events of the third movie.
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This fact was cemented into canon when Dewey asked Sidney in Scream V how Mark was but it seems that, perhaps most appropriately, there’s a twist to this tale… the Mark Sidney is married to isn’t Mark Kincaid, it’s Mark Evans!
Wait, what? Who?
We’ve known for a while now that Dempsey, left, was holding out of signing on to return over a pay dispute but it seems that he’s held out too long as Community and X-Files star Joel McHale has joined the cast as Sidney’s husband.
Clearly this character was meant to be Kincaid but circumstance has called for ingenuity and a new character has been created to fit the bill.
How this new casting will effect the story of the movie is unknown, if at all, at this stage but while it’s sad that Dempsey didn’t return, McHale is a likeable enough actor and he could be a welcome addition to the cast… the Scream fan in me actually kinda likes that this character isn’t who we thought he was.
So, will be be the killer? Or is he set to be the opening kill? Either would make sense at this stage…
Franchise creator Kevin Williamson is directing the new movie which is due to hit cinemas next February.
Thoughts?
UPDATE:
Critical Overlord has shared on Twitter that as far back as last November, Williamson had revealed he didn’t want references to Scream 3 in the new movie as he hates that movie and it may even mean the MArk mentioned by Dewey wasn’t Mark Kincaid… maybe there was more to the story than we all thought we knew:
Welp….#ScreamVII pic.twitter.com/lJjl5LIJtc
— CriticalOverlord (@CriticalOverlo3) January 16, 2025
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