Patrick Dempsey Explains Why He is No longer Returning for ‘Scream 7’

Patrick Dempsey sought after to go back for “Scream 7.”

In October, he stated there have been “a dialog” about him rejoining the horror franchise.

Dempsey advised the These days display, “I’m ready at the script, [but] I haven’t noticed the rest but. So we’ll see what occurs.”

Then it was once printed in January that Dempsey would no longer be taking part in detective Mark Kincaid once more.

So what came about?

“It simply didn’t determine and we have been coping with the fires and the whole lot that was once occurring and the agenda didn’t determine, sadly,” Dempsey, who lives in Malibu, advised me unique Saturday evening at Chanel and Charles Finch’s annual pre-Oscar dinner on the Beverly Hills Resort.

Sydney Prescott (Neve Campbell) referred to her husband as Mark in “Scream 5” so lovers assumed he should be Mark Kincaid. Alternatively, it was once introduced previous this 12 months that Joel McHale was once taking part in Sydney’s husband, Mark Kincaid.

Authentic forged participants Campbell and Courteney Cox are returning for “Scream 7” and so is Matthew Lillard, whose personality died within the first “Scream” after it was once printed he was once one of the most two killers.

Mason Gooding and Jasmin Savoy Brown, who gave the impression within the 5th and 6 installments as siblings, also are coming again. New forged participants come with Isabel Might, Mark Consuelos, Asa Germann, Mckenna Grace, Sam Rechner and Anna Camp. 

Kevin Williamson, who first the wrote “Scream,” makes his “Scream” directorial debut with the 7th movie.

Gooding teased the brand new “Scream” once I talked to him in early February on the premiere of his newest horror film “Center Eyes.” “It looks like an amplification of what’s got here prior to, and there’s no higher indication of that than Kevin Williamson, who wrote the unique, coming again now to direct,” he stated. “I feel that Ghostface is the absolute maximum brutal he’s been. I don’t wish to wreck the rest, however there’s some stuff that they do to the human frame that I think like Kevin is breaking new floor with.”

He additionally stated, “There was once a prosthetic that sat within the make-up trailer that in truth grew to become my abdomen over.”

“Scream 7” is slated to unencumber in theaters on Feb. 27, 2026. Paramount Photos will distribute the movie, which Spyglass Media is generating.