Patrick Dempsey explains why he doesn’t return for ‘Scream 7’

Patrick Dempsey wanted to return for “Scream 7” in October he said that there was a “conversation” that he had returned to the horror franchise. Dempsey said about the “Today” show: “I’m waiting for the script, but I haven’t seen anything yet. So we will see what was happening.” Then it became known in January that Dempsey Detective Mark Kincaid would not play again.

So what happened?

“It just didn’t work out and we have to do it with the fires and everything that was going on, and unfortunately the schedule did not work,” said Dempsey, who lives in Malibu, on Saturday evening in front of the Oscar in the Beverly Hills only on Saturday evening.

Sydney Prescott (Neve Campbell) described her husband as Mark in “Scream 5”, so that the fans had assumed that he must be Mark Kincaid. At the beginning of this year, however, it was announced that Joel Mchashe Sydney’s husband played.

The original actors Campbell and Courteney Cox return for “Scream 7”, as well as Matthew Lillard, whose character died in the first “screaming” after it became known that he was one of the two murderers.

Mason Gooding and Jasmin Savoy Brown, who appeared as a siblings in the fifth and six rates, also come back. The new performers include Isabel May, Mark Consuelos, ASA Germann, McKenna Grace, Sam Reformer and Anna Camp.

Kevin Williamson, who first wrote the “Scream”, gives his directorial debut with the seventh film.

Gooding teased the new “Scream” when I spoke to him in early February at the premiere of his latest horror film “Heart Eyes”. “It feels like a reinforcement of what has come before, and there is no better indication of this as Kevin Williamson, who wrote the original and is now coming back to lead,” he said. “I think that ghostface is absolutely brutal what it was. I don’t want to spoil anything, but there are some things that you address the human body with which I have the feeling that Kevin breaks new ground. “

He also said: “There was a prosthesis that was sitting in the make -up trailer that actually turned my stomach.”

“Scream 7” is to be published in the cinemas on February 27, 2026. Paramount Pictures distributes the film that Spyglass Media produces.