https://deadline.com/2025/01/scream-7-joel-mchale-sidney-prescott-husband-1236258510/
To be casted after filming has already commenced leads me to believe they were still working on getting Patrick Dempsey to return as Mark Kincaid from Scream 3 as her husband (as we all believed). Now they have to rewrite that part as some random Mark.
Omg wtf
To me, this means they were trying to get Patrick Dempsey, and it didn't work out for some reason.
So, instead of actually recasting Mark Kincaid, they're leaning into the fact that Mark is a common name and Sidney just ended up with another Mark.
The Scream movies generally are set over a period of time of 3 or 4 days. They could easily come up with a reason for Mark to be detained halfway around the world, and then just have him be off-screen in the story. So, that tells me that her husband is very crucial to the story. Which means he'll either kill or be killed. Honestly I think that means he'll end up being a Ghost Face. The betrayal would've been heavier from Dempsey, but can still happen here, probably the whole cult theory. Honestly if I was Sidney I think I'd just have stayed single and/or gotten my tubes tied so as to not pass on the trauma. Plus, McHale is usually funny, and I feel like he could use that to flip into creepy psycho.
Dempsey's "I haven't seen a script yet" remarks, I really don't think that's indicative they were going in another direction, I still think they wanted him.
I had hopes that Mark Kincaid would be one of the killers. My theory was that he was actually an accomplice in Scream 3. He was obsessed with Sidney and her history and realized he had a chance to be with her instead of kill her for Roman, and he got away with it. Then something came between them and he snapped. Like a new neighbor or work friend that he thinks Sidney is fooling around with or something, which turns into a "you really ARE just like your mother! Roman was right all along" type of thing. A strong consensus that I've come across is saying it needs to tie back to the original, and not have a new killer. Of course, their silly suggestion is that the killer has to be Stu even though he's been confirmed to be dead. I think Kincaid being the Ghostface that got away with it for so long would have had a huge impact, and like you said, "The betrayal would've been heavier from Dempsey". Now, I have no predictions.
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I kind of hate the guy, to be honest. I don't find him funny and cringe when I see his acting. I recently watched It's a Wonderful Knife, the Christmas horror movie, and I was displeased when he popped up on screen. He just played a normal guy, and for once, I actually thought he was pretty good. Then, later in the movie, he showed some great range that I didn't expect. If his Mark were to be one of the killers, I think he could certainly pull it off.
Agreed, he kind of annoys me too. But it is what it is, so let's see what he brings to the table.
Plus, it'd believable for her to end up with Kincaid, she feels she can trust him after surviving 3 together. This new Mark Evans is just some random dude she decided to trust.
But, it will enable them to lift Sam's whole "Do I have my father's darkness?" angle to Sidney's daughter(s)
I don't know him. Is he good?
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