The fan principle behind the id of Sidney Prescott’s husband in Scream 7 has been addressed by Neve Campbell. Sidney is the slasher franchise’s longtime last woman. She survived 5 of the Ghostface killer’s six big-screen rampages, Campbell having sat out 2023’s Scream VI amid a contract dispute.
Throughout her first scene within the 2022 legacy sequel Scream, a telephone dialog between Sidney and Dewey Riley (David Arquette) revealed that she was married and that her husband was named Mark. This led many followers to consider that Sidney had married Mark Kincaid (Patrick Dempsey), a police detective with whom she had romantic chemistry in 2000’s Scream 3.
Nonetheless, when the forged was introduced for the upcoming Scream 7, it was revealed that Sidney’s husband Mark really has the final identify Evans and will likely be portrayed by Neighborhood star Joel McHale.
Per Leisure Weekly, the brand new Ashley Cullins e-book Your Favourite Scary Film: How the Scream Movies Rewrote the Guidelines of Horror contains a new interview with Campbell the place she displays on the fan principle about Sidney’s husband. She revealed that she by no means thought-about that her character had married Mark Kincaid, saying that “I thought it was just a random name.”
She additionally revealed a bit about Sidney’s circumstances in Scream 7, saying that it will have been “challenging” for Sidney to decide on to have kids and that “how she chooses to parent is a big choice and perhaps different than how others might.”
Learn Campbell’s remark from the e-book under:
Actually, I assumed it was only a random identify. Take into consideration how difficult it will be to make the selection to also have a little one if you happen to had been Sidney Prescott. Then, if you happen to did have kids, the stress and concern that you’d dwell beneath about your historical past coming again to you. I don’t wish to give it away, however how she chooses to guardian is a large choice and maybe totally different than how others would possibly.
What This Means For Scream 7
Neve Campbell smiling as Sidney Prescott in 2022’s Scream
At first, it appeared extremely possible that Dempsey would reprise his position in Scream 7, because the film is ready to function a number of returning Scream characters.
Moreover, Kincaid remains to be alive within the franchise’s universe. Nonetheless, that might not even have been obligatory for his return, as David Arquette is returning in some unknown capability because the supposedly useless Dewey. Matthew Lillard and Scott Foley, who performed Scream’s Stu Macher and Scream 3’s Roman Bridger, two supposedly useless Ghostface killers, are additionally returning in unspecified roles.
Different returning stars in Scream 7 embrace Campbell, Courteney Cox as caustic reporter Gale Weathers, and Mason Gooding and Jasmin Savoy Brown as twins Chad and Mindy Meeks-Martin.
Nonetheless, it is sensible why Sidney wouldn’t have introduced Mark again into her life. Constructing a household with one other Ghostface survivor might have made her really feel too susceptible, as a result of the vast majority of the Ghostface killers are conscious of the characters concerned within the earlier slayings. Moreover, his presence might have been a continuing reminder of her trauma.
Patrick Dempsey as Mark Kincaid leaning over Neve Campbell as Sidney Prescott in Scream 3
One of the intriguing components of the newly printed Campbell interview is the tease about Sidney’s mothering. It feels like Sidney might have taught her daughter (who will likely be performed by Isabel Could) survival abilities, parenting in an identical technique to Linda Hamilton’s Sarah Connor in Terminator 2 and Jamie Lee Curtis’ Laurie Strode in 2018’s Halloween.
Nonetheless, if Sidney’s selections in Scream 7 are actually “different from how others might” make them, then there could also be an surprising twist in the best way that Sidney has constructed her household that takes issues in a completely totally different path.
Scream 7
Launch Date
February 27, 2026
Director
Kevin Williamson
Writers
Kevin Williamson, Man Busick, James Vanderbilt
Producers
Neve Campbell, Peter Oillataguerre, William Sherak, Ron Lynch
Neve Campbell
Sidney Prescott
