There couldn’t be a better time for a new Scary Movie trailer that features SNL‘s Kenan Thompson as Michael Jackson. With the new biopic hitting theaters this week, and likely to be a gigantic hit, why not let audiences know that you’ll also be highlighting the King of Pop, albeit by making fun of him.
The Wayans Bros. are back in charge and that was when this franchise was at its best. It continues to look like a riff on the long-running Scream movies, and considering Scream 7 recently became the biggest earner of them all, it shows that fans still have an interest.
Franchise mainstays Anna Faris, Regina Hall, Jon Abrahams, Cheri Oteri, Dave Sheridan, plus Shawn and Marlon Wayans return, joined by Lochlyn Munro, Anthony Anderson, Chris Elliott, Damon Wayans Jr., Kim Wayans, Heidi Garnder, Felissa Rose, Olivia Rose Keegan, Cameron Scott Roberts, and Savannah Lee Nassif.
Michael Tiddes (A Haunted House, Fifty Shades of Black) directs from a script by Marlon, Shawn, Keenen Ivory Wayans, and Rick Alvarez. Keenan is famously the creator of the Scary Movie franchise as well as In Living Color.
The Wayans’ have some big movies to take shots at, too, including Weapons and Ryan Coogler’s Sinners.
SYNOPSIS: Twenty-six years after outrunning a suspiciously familiar masked killer (Ghostface), the Core Four are back in the killer’s crosshairs, and no horror movie IP is safe. Marlon Wayans (Shorty), Shawn Wayans (Ray), Anna Faris (Cindy), and Regina Hall (Brenda) reunite in Scary Movie alongside returning favorites and fresh faces to slash through reboots, remakes, requels, prequels, sequels, spin-offs, elevated horror, origin stories, anything with the word legacy in it, and every “final chapter” that absolutely isn’t final. Nothing is sacred. No trope survives. Every line gets crossed. The Wayans are back to cancel the Cancel Culture.
Scary Movie hits theaters on June 5th from Paramount.
