Scream 6 footage reveals that Jenna Ortega’s Tara may have a new romance on the horizon. The film, which is coming to theaters on March 10, will follow directly from the events of Scream 2022 as most of the survivors reconvene in New York to fend off a brand new Ghostface killer. These survivors include hardnosed reporter Gale Weathers (Courteney Cox), Scream 4 fan favorite Kirby Reed (Hayden Panettiere), twin siblings Chad (Mason Gooding) and Mindy Meeks-Martin (Jasmin Savoy-Brown), and formerly estranged sisters Sam (Melissa Barrera) and Tara Carpenter (Jenna Ortega).
Today, Demi Lovato released the music video for the movie tie-in song “Still Alive,” which features officially licensed footage from the upcoming Scream 6.
Some of the clips that appear in the video have never been seen before, including several shots of the surviving gang hanging out. However, a lingering glance between Tara and Chad would seem to imply that they are starting to be much more than friends out there in the Big Apple.
Romance Isn’t Always Doomed in the Scream Franchise
Now that Tara is forming a new attachment with another survivor, it seems only natural that Chad will be put on the chopping block in Scream 6. This isn’t entirely unprecedented. As Scream 2022 proved, boyfriends in the slasher whodunit franchise usually either turn out to be victims or the killer.
However, romantic couples can survive – at least for quite a while – in the Scream movies. The primary example of this is Gale Weather’s on-again, off-again relationship with Dewey Riley (David Arquette). While Dewey was eventually murdered in Scream 2022, their love survived long enough to fizzle out on its own before he was dispatched.
Consummate final girl Sidney Prescott (Neve Campbell) has also found love. In fact, in Scream 2022 it was implied that her husband and the father of her children is none other than Mark Kincaid (Patrick Dempsey) from Scream 3. These romances show that there is precedent for couples to survive across multiple entries, especially if they are returning characters, so at the very least this Scream 6 romance could have a future, giving Chad a second chance at love after his girlfriend Liv McKenzie (Sonia Ammar) was brutally killed in the previous entry.
Source: Demi Lovato
