EXCLUSIVE: Core Scary Movie actresses Regina Hall and Anna Faris are coming back as Brenda and Cindy, respectively, for the Wayans Brothers’ restart of the early millennium comedy franchise.
Said Hall and Faris, “We can’t wait to bring Brenda and Cindy back to life and be reunited with our great friends Keenen, Shawn and Marlon — three men we’d literally die for (in Brenda’s case, again).”
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The new Scary Movie is a big reunion, bringing the Wayans brothers back together for the first time in 18 years to write an all-new original script for the series, co-penning the Miramax production with Rick Alvarez. Scary Movie is prepping for an October shoot in time for a June 12, 2026 global theatrical release via Paramount. Miramax has a first-look deal with Paramount.
Timing is everything in comedy, and a new Scary Movie couldn’t arrive at a better time in theaters when horror movies have hit saturation this year. The genre is screaming for a pie to be thrown in its face.
The near $900 million-grossing Scary Movie film franchise was developed by Marlon Wayans, Shawn Wayans and Keenen Ivory Wayans. The latter wrote and directed the first two films, and will return to produce the upcoming chapter. Marlon and Shawn wrote and starred in the first two films.
This will be the sixth film in the franchise, with Michael Tiddes set to direct. Tiddes is a longtime Wayans collaborator, starting as an assistant on White Chicks. He directed a trio of Wayans films – the satirical horror comedy A Haunted House and the Netflix hit movies Naked and Sextuplets. Tiddes is repped by Artists First and Goodman, Genow, Schenkman, Smelkinson & Christopher.
Miramax’s Jonathan Glickman, Alexandra Loewy and Thomas Zadra are executive producing.
The Scary Movie comedies span fives movies, the first being in released in 2000 when it was one of the highest-grossing R-rated horror movies of all time back in the day. The original also set the box office opening record for an R-rated horror movie at $42.5 million.
The Independent Artist Group-repped Hall next stars in Paul Thomas Anderson’s Warner Bros movie One Battle After Another with Leonardo DiCaprio, Sean Penn and Benicio Del Toro, hitting theaters on September 26. She’s also starring in Nick Stoller’s Judgment Day with Will Ferrell and Zac Efron. She is currently in production on The Five Star Weekend for Peacock, opposite Jennifer Garner, Chloë Sevigny, Gemma Chan and Timothy Olyphant. Additionally, she’ll lead her voice to the upcoming The SpongeBob Movie: Search for Squarepants alongside Sherry Cola, Arturo Castro, George Lopez and Ice Spice.
Faris is repped by Gersh, Range Media Partners and Sloane, Offer, Weber & Dern. Following her breakout in the Scary Movie series, she went on to star in and produce The House Bunny and Greg Araki’s Smiley Face. She will next star in Spa Weekend. Other feature credits include The Dictator with Sasha Baron Cohen, Overboard, Just Friends and Oscar-winning titles Brokeback Mountain and Lost in Translation. Faris starred for eight seasons in the hit CBS sitcom Mom opposite Allison Janney and had memorable arcs on Friends and Entourage. She also penned the New York Times bestselling memoir Unqualified.
Marlon Wayans teased Hall and Faris’ casting on IG:
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