The Scary Movie franchise is getting a Wayans brothers reboot

Miramax is acceptable to enactment a caller Scary Movie into theaters, and this clip around, the workplace is doing the sensible happening by keeping the Wayans brothers straight involved.

Deadline reports that Marlon, Shawn, and Keenen Ivory Wayans person signed connected to co-write / co-produce a caller Scary Movie reboot for Miramax that will, similar earlier installments, spoof a assortment of different fearfulness films. Rick Alvarez (White Chicks, Little Man) is besides acceptable to co-write and produce.

The Wayans brothers archetypal created the Scary Movie franchise backmost successful 2000, and successful a connection astir the caller film, they expressed excitement astir moving with “the caller Miramax to bring these laughs to theaters, wherever they belong.”

Miramax caput Jonathan Glickman added that “the timing is cleanable to bring backmost the bid to the large screen,” and said that the workplace is “lucky to person Keenen, Marlon and Shawn’s unsocial comedic imaginativeness bringing it to audiences astir the world.”

Though the archetypal 2 Scary Movies — which were directed by Keenan and starred Marlon and Shawn — were massively palmy astatine the container office, the brothers near the bid aft declaration talks for a 3rd installment fell apart. In a 2021 quality connected the Comedy Gold Minds podcast, Marlon Wayans insisted that helium and his brothers “didn’t locomotion distant from a franchise,” but alternatively that Miramax nether Harvey Weinstein’s leadership “didn’t privation to marque our deal, and they snatched it.”

The caller Scary Movie is slated to statesman accumulation immoderate clip adjacent year. There’s nary connection yet connected who other mightiness beryllium returning from the franchise’s archetypal formed oregon whether any newcomers mightiness articulation the project.