The original stars of Scary Movie, Anna Faris and Regina Hall, will return to the franchise for their sixth delivery next year, confirmed writer Marlon Wayans on Friday, this being the first addition to the franchise of almost one billion dollars in more than a decade.
Key data
Both will meet for Scary Movie 6, which will be released on June 12, 2026, and will be the first time in 18 years that the creators of the franchise, the Marlon Wayans brothers, Shawn Wayans and Keenen Ivory Wayans, will write an original script together.
The Wayans brothers, who also had papers in the first two films, Faris and Hall are the only actors confirmed so far, but has circulated the rumor that Chris Elliott, who achieved television fame in Schitt’s Creek, could also return.
The Scary Movie franchise is a series of parodies of horror films that reached great popularity in the early 2000s and raised 429 million dollars nationwide and 818 million dollars globally between 2000 and 2006.
A fifth film, which was made seven years after the first and did not have any of the original actors, raised 32 million dollars nationwide and 78.3 million dollars globally in 2013.
SCARY MOVIE 6 will be a restart of the franchise, not directly related to the temporal line of the previous films.
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Key history
Faris and Hall played the characters Cindy Campbell and Brenda Meeks, respectively, in the first four films of Parody Scary Movie from 2000 to 2006. Cindy, based on Sidney Prescott of Scream and Julie by I Know What You Did Last Summer, is the main character of the franchise, and Meeks, based on Karla de I Still Know What You Did Last Summer and Maureen De Scream 2, is her best friend. Meeks was killed in Scary Movie and Scary Movie 3, but returned in later films without explanation. The first movie parody mainly Scream and I Know What You Did Last Summer, but also takes elements of The Exorcist, The Shining, Buffy The Vampire Slayer, The Sixth Sense and other films. The first film, which raised 157 million dollars becoming one of the horror films with racket r more groves of all time, received mixed criticisms from critics, with one saying that it was “practically guaranteed that it would make you laugh until you are ashamed of yourself.” Scary Movie inspired a parodies trend that continued throughout the 2000s, and saw the launch of films such as Not Another Teen Movie, Date Movie, Another Gay Movie and Superhero Movie.
Great figure
4%. That is the score of critics in Rotten Tomatoes for Scary Movie 5, the worst qualified one in the series. Scary Movie has a 51% score, Scary Movie 2 has 13%, Scary Movie 3 35% and Scary Movie 4 34% in Rotten Tomatoes.
Surprising data
Despite mixed criticism, the franchise was a pillar of the first 2000s and attracted great names for cameos, such as Charlie Sheen, Lindsay Lohan, James Van der Beek, Tori Spelling and Jenny McCarthy.
What we don’t know
What films will parody Scary Movie 6. The film has more than a decade of material to choose from, and fans have speculated that Hereditary, Midsommar and M3Gan could be some of the chosen ones.
This article was originally published by Forbes US
