Scream 7 may have lost the Carpenter sisters, but Patrick Dempsey has teased his potential return as Scream 3s Mark Kincaid. Originally joining the long-running horror franchise in 2000s Scream threequel, Dempseys character was depicted as a Hollywood detective assigned to investigate the murders of the in-universe Stab 3 cast. Despite his character surviving the events of Scream 3, Dempsey has not returned for any of the subsequent sequels, despite his character eventually becoming Sidney Prescotts husband and father to her three children.