The popular fan theory never crossed her mind. Scream 7 star Neve Campbell never thought Patrick Dempsey's Mark was Sidney's husband

The popular fan theory never crossed her mind.

Scream 7 star Neve Campbell never thought Patrick Dempsey's Mark was Sidney's husband

The popular fan theory never crossed her mind.

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Published on August 20, 2025 09:00AM EDT

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Neve Campbell's Sidney Prescott and Patrick Dempsey's Mark Kincaid in 'Scream 3'. Credit:

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Neve Campbell completely missed one crucial name-drop in the *Scream* movies that fueled a pretty big fan theory many considered to be an unconfirmed fact.

*Scream* (2022) and *Scream VI* (2023) include mentions of a man named Mark when referring to the husband of Campbell's scream queen, Sidney Prescott. Countless fans assumed this guy to be Mark Kincaid, the Los Angeles detective played by Patrick Dempsey in 2000's *Scream 3*.

It seemed true, especially when Dempsey himself told press in 2024 that he was in talks to return for the upcoming *Scream 7*. The casting didn't ultimately come to fruition, and instead, Joel McHale joined as Sidney's husband, Mark Evans.

In a new book, *Your Favorite Scary Movie: How the Scream Films Rewrote the Rules of Horror *(out now), Campbell tells author Ashley Cullins that she never made the connection between the Mark references in the previous films and Dempsey's Kincaid.

Patrick Dempsey as Mark Kincaid in 'Scream 3'. Dimension Films

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"Honestly," the actress says, "I thought it was just a random name."

Plot details for *Scream 7* are under wraps, but we at least know it has to do with the family Sidney forms off-screen. Isabel May plays her daughter, while the film features returning veterans Courteney Cox as Gale Weathers, Mason Gooding as Chad Meeks, and Jasmin Savoy Brown as Mindy Meeks.

"Think about how challenging it would be to make the choice to even have a child if you were Sidney Prescott," Campbell says in Cullins' book. "Then, if you did have children, the stress and fear that you would live under about your history coming back to you. I don't want to give it away, but how she chooses to parent is a big choice and perhaps different than how others might."

Matthew Lillard, David Arquette, and Scott Foley are also returning to the *Scream* franchise for the seventh film, presumably as their characters Stu Macher, Dewey Riley, and Roman Bridger, respectively, though all three characters died in past movies.

Neve Campbell's Sidney Prescott in 'Scream' (2022). Paramount Pictures

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Wholly new to the cast are Anna Camp, Mckenna Grace, Celeste O'Connor, Asa Germann, Sam Rechner, Ethan Embry, and Mark Consuelos.

Dempsey previously commented to *Variety* of sitting out *Scream 7*, "It just didn't work out, and we were dealing with the fires [in Los Angeles] and everything that was going on, and the schedule didn't work out, unfortunately."

Directed by Kevin Williamson, *Scream 7* will premiere in theaters Feb. 27, 2026.

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