Here’s Wassup With That Scary Movie Reboot

A fewer days earlier Halloween feels similar the cleanable infinitesimal for this update: that caller Scary Movie entry, teased astatine CinemaCon earlier this year, is officially moving afloat steam ahead. Even better, the Wayans Brothers, who made the archetypal 2 Scary Movie horror comedies but were absent for parts 3 done five, are backmost for the reboot.

This quality comes from Deadline, which notes the sixth Scary Movie volition beryllium a theatrical merchandise done Miramax and Paramount and volition commencement filming adjacent year.

Marlon, Shawn, and Keenan Ivory Wayans—the second directed the archetypal 2 Scary Movies; the erstwhile some co-wrote and co-starred—told the trade, “We couldn’t beryllium much excited to beryllium a portion of the caller Scary Movie and enactment with each different again. This is simply a franchise we created much than 20 years ago. We retrieve radical laughing successful the aisles and anticipation to spot that hap again. We look guardant to moving with Jonathan Glickman and his squad astatine the caller Miramax to bring these laughs to theaters, wherever they belong. It’s a treble reunion.”

The astir caller Scary Movie was released successful 2013; it was a box-office disappointment aft an established way grounds of hits. The 2000 original, which parodied the then-newly fashionable Scream and I Know What You Did Last Summer slasher franchises, is inactive the top-grosser astatine implicit $278 million. Scary Movie 2 followed successful 2001, skewering The Exorcist and House connected Haunted Hill; Scary Movie 3, an oft-cited instrumentality favorite, took connected The Ring and Signs (with a dash of 8 Mile, too). Part 4 had much M. Night Shyamalan (The Village) and Japanese fearfulness (The Grudge) to mock, on with Saw; portion five’s diminishing returns took connected Mama, Paranormal Activity, and Black Swan.

So acold there’s nary connection connected what the caller Scary Movie mightiness skewer, but if you look astatine the past decade-plus of fearfulness releases, there’s truthful overmuch for the Wayans to riff on, including The Conjuring films, the full scope of “elevated horror” (Get Out, Hereditary, The Witch), tech terrors (M3GAN is already campy, but ideate a Scary Movie mentation of her!), the caller Universal Monster movies, and possibly adjacent the meta thought of reboots and bequest sequels (The Exorcist, Halloween, Beetlejuice Beetlejuice). In particular, Scream and I Know What You Do Last Summer are progressive franchises again, truthful Scary Movie would besides person bully crushed to cheque successful with immoderate aged favorites.

There’s besides nary connection connected who mightiness prima successful Scary Movie portion six, different than (presumably) the Wayans—but we’d emotion to spot an Anna Faris-Regina Hall reunion arsenic portion of this caller project. (Earlier this year, Faris said she was unfastened to the idea).

What bash you think: is the satellite yet acceptable for much Scary Movie? Let america cognize below.

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