The long-awaited Scream 7 has cast Community star Joel McHale to play Neve Campbell's husband. Deadline was first to report McHale's casting. McHale joins the cast as the movie is in production. Scream 7's cast features Campbell, Courtney Cox, and Mason Gooding.

Scream 7 has found the actor to play the husband to Neve Campbell’s Sidney Prescott, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed. Joel McHale is on board to play spouse Mark Evans, as the Community and Yellowjackets star joins the latest installment for the horror franchise produced by Spyglass Entertainment.

Patrick Dempsey will not portray the husband of Sidney Prescott, the Scream franchise's main character, in the next film. The Grey's Anatomy actor played Detective Mark Kincaid in 2000' s Scream 3, and in 2022' s Scream,