the reason chad got to live

this interview by the directors of scream on why the change the fate of chad

Mason is a force. He is so loving and charismatic. He is the definition of someone who walks into a room and lights it up. He has that presence no matter what the situation, where he is, and we had a Zoom with him during the pandemic when we were doing casting. Not an audition, just a, 'Hey, what's going on?' Two seconds after the zoom, we were texting, 'Oh fuck, this is bad, this has got to be Chad.' He blew us away."

The discussion with THR then led into how he was a necessity for the film and how crucial his survival felt as an end result, noting, "Then the conversation as soon as he signed on was, 'Well we cant' kill Chad. Mason has got to be in the other movies. This guy is the greatest! We'd be crazy to get someone this charismatic and just kill them.' I went to a screening this weekend to see it with an audience. I heard an audible, cathartic gasp. You could feel people were so glad that he lived. That includes us."