Joel McHale Joins ‘Scream 7’ in a Part That Will Surprise Hardcore Fans

Somewhere in cinema heaven, Randy Meeks (Jamie Kennedy) is pissed. Why, you ask? Because another funny guy solidified the deal and got the girl, with Deadline exclusively announcing that silly dude Joel McHale will appear as the husband of Neve Campbell’s Sidney Prescott in Scream 7. Yes, please take a moment to clutch your pearls and practice your breathing exercises – we know we are over here at Collider. But save some space for more shock because it’s about to get weirder. If you (like literally everyone else) thought that Patrick Dempsey would be returning to the seventh installment to reprise his role as Detective Mark Kincaid from the third film, you’d be on the right track but dead wrong. In 2022, it was teased that Sidney’s husband’s name was “Mark”, leading the fandom to believe that Sidney had found love in a hopeless place by the time the credits rolled on the 2000 Wes Craven-helmed film. This is where things get extra strange because McHale’s character is – in fact – named Mark, but Mark Evans, not Kincaid.

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