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\n\tOn the surface, \u201cScary Movie\u201d may seem like just another summer sequel mining nostalgia for profit. But for Marlon Wayans, the film\u2019s writer, producer and star, it represents the culmination of a quarter-century battle to wrest control of his family\u2019s franchise back from its pillagers, as well as a promise he\u2019d made to his dying father. \u201cMy father was in the hospital for a few weeks before he passed, and in one of our final conversations, he said, \u2018I think you and your brothers should work together again,\u2019\u201d Wayans says.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\n\tThe youngest of 10 siblings, Wayans had followed the trail blazed by older brothers Keenen and Damon out of a housing project in New York City and into Hollywood, first on their iconic sketch comedy show \u201cIn Living Color,\u201d and then teaming with his brother Shawn on the sitcom \u201cThe Wayans Bros.\u201d and with Keenen and Shawn on the hit films \u201cDon\u2019t Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood\u2026,\u201d \u201cScary Movie,\u201d \u201cScary Movie 2,\u201d \u201cWhite Chicks\u201d and \u201cLittle Man.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tBut at the time of his father\u2019s decline, Wayans and his brothers were at different stages of middle age, worked at different paces and wanted different things. It\u2019s not so easy to get the Wayans brothers on the same page. \u201cIt\u2019s hard for four Black men to stay together,\u201d jokes Wayans. \u201cLook at New Edition. And in this case, we\u2019ve got four Bobby Browns.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tBut his father was adamant. \u201cYou guys make magic<\/em> together,\u201d he said. \u201cI think you should do it.\u201d Then he whispered, \u201cDo it for me.\u201d Wayans\u2019 eyes met his father\u2019s, and he replied, \u201cAll right \u2014 for you.\u201d \u201cMy father put his hand out, and I shook it and promised him that I would make this happen,\u201d Wayans says. \u201cAnd I did. And I feel complete.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tDirected by frequent collaborator Michael Tiddes and written and produced by Wayans, brothers Keenen and Shawn, nephew Craig and co-producer and co-writer Rick Alvarez, \u201cScary Movie,\u201d in theaters June 5, marks the first film in the nearly $1 billion parody franchise since 2013\u2019s lackluster fifth installment. More importantly, it marks the Wayans family\u2019s return to the franchise they birthed, after it was cruelly taken from them following the release of \u201cScary Movie 2.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tThe first two \u201cScary Movie\u201d films, released in 2000 and 2001, were directed by Keenen Ivory Wayans and co-written by Marlon and Shawn, who also starred. A parody of the deluge of horror films that invaded \u201990s screens, the movies proved massively profitable for distributor Dimension Films, a subsidiary of Miramax, which was owned and controlled by Harvey and Bob Weinstein. \u201cScary Movie\u201d grossed $278 million on a $19 million budget, while \u201cScary Movie 2\u201d did $141 million in business on a $45 million budget.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tGiven the success of those films, Keenen, Marlon and Shawn demanded a well-deserved raise for the third one. But the Weinsteins, as is their wont, countered with a lowball offer, and when the Wayanses balked, Wayans claims, the Weinsteins stole their idea for the third film and made it without them.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tThe way they found out about it still rankles Wayans. \u201cWe didn\u2019t even know,\u201d he remembers. \u201cWe got an announcement on New Year\u2019s Eve that they were doing \u2018Scary Movie 3.\u2019 The franchise was stripped<\/em> from us. And we were just asking for our fair share.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tTo give some insight into the Weinsteins and the way they did business \u2014 Harvey\u2019s dozens of sexual-assault allegations and pair of rape convictions notwithstanding \u2014 Wayans tells a story about the making of \u201cSenseless,\u201d a 1998 comedy he did with Miramax. Prior to filming, the Weinsteins sent him a copy of Sun Tzu\u2019s \u201cThe Art of War.\u201d \u201cI read it and immediately knew who they were,\u201d Wayans says. \u201cThey rape and pillage villages. They were tyrants and had a dynasty. But a lot of those dynasties with dictators, they die a terrible death, and then there\u2019s a new regime. There\u2019s a karma to life, and there\u2019s a karma to business.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tOn top of the franchise being taken from them, Wayans contends that the Weinsteins screwed him and his brothers out of royalties on the first two \u201cScary Movie\u201d films, echoing a similar claim made by filmmaker Michael Moore, who accused the Weinsteins of using \u201cHollywood accounting tricks\u201d in a 2011 lawsuit (that was eventually settled out of court) over the profits from his documentary \u201cFahrenheit 9\/11.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tExactly how much the Wayans brothers are owed is yet to be determined, though Wayans suggests that he and his siblings are still fighting for their due share. \u201cThey absolutely did. Absolutely<\/em>,\u201d he says of the Weinsteins pulling a fast one on them. \u201cThere are auditors that will handle those things. We could\u2019ve sued, and we probably would\u2019ve won.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWhat they did is between them and God,\u201d he says. \u201cI don\u2019t applaud that type of behavior, but I can\u2019t hold hate and hurt in my heart if I want to evolve.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tWhen Jonathan Glickman, the CEO of Miramax, reached out a couple of\u00a0 years ago to revive the \u201cScary Movie\u201d franchise, Wayans remembered the promise that he\u2019d made to his father. \u201cMe and my family don\u2019t hold grudges,\u201d he says. \u201cSo when Jon hit me up to do \u2018Scary Movie,\u2019 I was like, I can\u2019t do this without my brothers. So I got Shawn and Keenen on board. This is a return back to the franchise we all created, so forget all the bad years! This isn\u2019t \u2018Scary Movie 6\u2019; this is a reboot.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tGlickman was appointed CEO of Miramax on April 2, 2024. His first day on the job, he says, he called Wayans to see if he had any interest in reviving what he calls the \u201csleeping giant\u201d that is \u201cScary Movie.\u201d Glickman also had a personal connection to the Wayans brothers: His first job in the film industry out of college was as an intern to producer Joe Roth, and the first script he read at that job was Keenen Ivory Wayans\u2019 \u201cA Low Down Dirty Shame.\u201d He was determined to do right by the Wayanses after their sour experience with the Weinsteins.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWhen I came to Miramax, I saw the deals that were made with Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez, and the Wayanses didn\u2019t have a similar deal \u2014 even though they had a similar amount of success that those filmmakers had had as creators-directors-stars and they deserved it,\u201d Glickman says in a phone call from Cannes. \u201cSo we ultimately gave them that same type of deal that they should have gotten when \u2018Scary Movie\u2019 came out in 2000. They\u2019re truly our partners in making this movie, and they had control over who was cast and how the script is, and that comes from our tremendous faith in them.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAs the story so often goes, in \u201cScary Movie,\u201d a killer resurfaces from the gang\u2019s past, prompting them to get back together. In addition to Wayans and Shawn reprising their roles from the first two \u201cScary Movie\u201d films, the reboot also brings back Anna Faris and Regina Hall as Cindy Campbell and Brenda Meeks, its two tormented protagonists, along with Jon Abrahams, Anthony Anderson, Cheri Oteri, Damon Wayans Jr., Kim Wayans, Gregg Wayans and Chris Elliott.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tWhen the \u201cScary Movie\u201d trailer debuted online, people were shocked by how the filmmakers had managed to parody recent films like \u201cSinners,\u201d \u201cWeapons\u201d and even the Michael Jackson biopic \u201cMichael,\u201d which is in theaters. And the way Wayans and Co. pulled it off is even more shocking: They did three days of additional photography in April \u2014 as in last month<\/em>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWhen you\u2019re raised in sketch, you\u2019re turning over every week,\u201d explains Wayans. \u201cWe did that additional photography in April and thought, let\u2019s run and gun. And so we shot all these pages of new stuff that wound up being hilarious and made it into the movie. We work fast<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThough principal photography had been completed on \u201cScary Movie,\u201d Wayans felt a burst of inspiration upon seeing the trailer for \u201cMichael,\u201d and immediately hit up Alvarez with an idea and the perfect actor to help execute it. \u201cIt took us less than half a day to write a really funny scene, and we thought Kenan Thompson would be a perfect Michael because he\u2019s so lovable, and it would be such a great mashup to see someone from \u2018SNL\u2019 in the \u2018In Living Color\u2019 world.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tWhile Wayans is tight-lipped about the details of \u201cScary Movie,\u201d he does tease that \u201cour opening kill is really special and something that the audience is not going to expect.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\n\tHe can also confirm one person who won\u2019t <\/em>be in the film despite his best efforts: Dave Chappelle.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI wrote two really funny scenes for Chappelle and pitched them both. And he was like, \u2018Ahhhh<\/em>,\u2019\u201d says Wayans, mimicking his friend\u2019s dismissive sigh. \u201cI love Dave and he\u2019s like a brother, and I hope one day I\u2019ll get that cameo.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tMore than anything, though, Wayans believes that now is the perfect time for another \u201cScary Movie.\u201d \u201cThis is coming at a time where the world needs<\/em> a laugh,\u201d he says. \u201cAnd look, we\u2019re not here to save the world. We\u2019re here to remind people what it\u2019s like to laugh and feel good. We\u2019re all too in our phones. There\u2019s nothing more infectious than sitting and laughing in a theater with a bunch of people with different age ranges and backgrounds. We want you to go be 15 again. Post-COVID, we need this.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tWayans needed it too.<\/p>\n

\n\tHe and his siblings grew up poor in Fulton Houses, a housing project in Manhattan. Wayans credits his father, Howell, a supermarket manager and Jehovah\u2019s Witness, for instilling in the family a sense of faith, while his mother, Elvira, a social worker, is responsible for their sharp comedy chops.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cOne of the funniest people that ever walked this earth was Elvira Wayans. She was brilliant<\/em>,\u201d Wayans says. \u201cHer point of view of the poverty we were in, of religion, of my father \u2014 everything <\/em>was a joke to my mother, and she was fearless. I think we inherited that comedic genius that my mother had. Instead of being a part of all the negative things that were happening in our neighborhood \u2014 from drugs and drug dealing to gang violence and prostitution \u2014 we chose to make fun of it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThough his father never successfully recruited him to the Jehovah\u2019s Witnesses, Wayans did inherit from him a strong belief in God \u2014 and the following warning: One day, he would experience unimaginable heartbreak and fall before God on his knees and beg Him for the strength to carry on.<\/p>\n

\n\tAnd then the COVID pandemic hit. \u201cMy world crumbled,\u201d Wayans says, his voice breaking. \u201cI lost 62 people that I loved, including my mother and my father. I had friends and people that are very special to me \u2014 some OD\u2019d with fentanyl; others died of brain aneurysms, strokes. Sixty people that I loved died, and then my mother and my father died. And then my child transitioned from my daughter to my son. And this was all happening at once. I finally understood what my father meant: Sometimes you need faith to bring you through the darkness.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tWayans has been refreshingly outspoken when it comes to his support for his transgender son, Kai, who is 25, defending him from hateful trolls like the rapper Soulja Boy and decrying transphobia. By his estimation, it took him \u201ca week to go from denial to acceptance\u201d of his son\u2019s transition, and they\u2019re now in a very good place.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIt taught me true, unconditional love,\u201d he says of Kai\u2019s transition. \u201cI\u2019ve never been married because I was never ready for marriage. And I went through this journey with my child, and it taught me to love unconditionally. At the end of the day, are my children happy? And if they\u2019re happy, then I\u2019m happy for them. My job as a father is to protect, respect and honor my children, and make sure they feel supported. It\u2019s not my job to judge them; it\u2019s my job to love them.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cAll of my kids are gifts, and our love is the wrapping paper. I\u2019m not here for hate. Transphobia is a form of hate. Homophobia is a form of hate. Racism is a form of hate. All those small-hearted, small-minded people, there\u2019s a hell for you. And if you think you\u2019re gonna bully my child, go somewhere else. It\u2019s not going to happen. I won\u2019t<\/em> stand for it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tI ask him how he negotiates his good friendship with Chappelle and having a transgender child, given the heavy backlash the comedian\u2019s received for his jokes in his recent Netflix comedy specials aimed at the trans community \u2014 jokes that led to a walkout by Netflix employees who felt that the material was transphobic.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI wouldn\u2019t hang with Dave if he was full of hate. I don\u2019t hang with people like that,\u201d Wayans maintains. \u201cI know Dave\u2019s heart, and his intention isn\u2019t to punch down. Dave wants to freely tell his jokes, and if you\u2019re going to be anti-comedy, then he\u2019s going to keep attacking you until you learn to have a sense of humor. He\u2019s just standing there and defending his front line as a comedian.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAs Wayans sees it, Chappelle was locked in a bitter censorship \u201cwar\u201d with his detractors and had dug in his heels, refusing to cede any ground for the sake of comedy. Nobody was going to tell Chappelle who he could and couldn\u2019t joke about, and Wayans says, \u201cYou have to be a comedian to understand that.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cAs a comedian, I respect his journey. And as a friend, I respect his journey. And for my child, I respect their journey,\u201d Wayans continues. \u201cAnd as the father of my child, I can appropriate my feelings toward my friend and my feelings toward my child, and how we can put those two things together and I can explain both sides. I\u2019m between them, so I can explain both sides to each other.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tWayans is currently on the road, practicing material for his sixth stand-up comedy special. It\u2019s a very moving hour, he says, that in part explores what it\u2019s like to be the parent of a transgender child. \u201cI bare my soul on the stage, and I give other trans parents the guide on how to get there. And they come up to me after the show and thank me for that, and they cry.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tHe says he hasn\u2019t had a day off in 18 months \u2014 not a single day \u2014 owing to writing, producing and editing \u201cScary Movie\u201d while developing two other films, performing stand-up comedy every weekend to prep for that upcoming special, and promoting \u201cScary Movie.\u201d If the film does well, he says that could mean the studios will greenlight the sequels he\u2019s envisioning to two of the most celebrated comedy films in his canon: \u201cDon\u2019t Be a Menace\u201d and \u201cWhite Chicks.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tBut there\u2019s no stopping Marlon Wayans. This is the dream he\u2019s had since he was a child crowded around the TV with his siblings watching older brothers Damon on \u201cSNL\u201d and\u00a0 Keenen on \u201cThe Tonight Show\u201d with Carson. \u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIt doesn\u2019t feel overwhelming to me,\u201d he says. \u201cI feel like, \u2018Oh, this is the shit I\u2019ve asked for.\u2019 I\u2019ve got the most energy I\u2019ve ever had, and I\u2019m looking forward to the next 20 years being my
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