Marlon Wayans unveils first trailer for raucous ‘rebooquel’ ‘Scary Movie 6’ (exclusive)

You’ve heard of a prequel. Thanks to Screamyou’ve got heard of a requel. You might even have heard of a paraquel. Now, let Marlon Wayans introduce you to the rebooquel.

The well-known funnyman is able to reveal the first trailer for Scary Movie 6his grand return to the horror comedy franchise he kickedstarted with brothers Shawn and Keenen Ivory Wayans over 25 years in the past. In a dialog with Entertainment Weekly forward of the first take a look at the Wayans’ long-awaited return to Scary Moviewhich additionally marks a reunion with beloved collection stars Anna Faris and Regina Hall, Marlon says that Scary Movie 6 is extra than simply “a complete reboot, starting back where we began the franchise in 2000.” In a phrase, it is “a rebooquel.”

And that is not all. “This movie is multi-generational. It’s a conversation comedically that is needed, that needs to be had from our generation down to Gen, what is it?” Marlon thinks loud. “Gen Alpha. And it’s all inclusive.”

The first few seconds of the trailer for Scary Movie 6, directed by Michael Tiddes, tease a bunch of latest targets from the previous twenty years of horror historical past for Marlon and his brothers, who co-wrote the movie, to skewer. The titular slasher from final yr’s Heart Eyes and the big glambot M3GAN menace the passengers of a New York City subway, recalling the Scream franchise’s transfer from the suburbs to the massive metropolis with Scream 6.

Wes Craven and Kevin Williamson’s meta-slasher was the Scary Movie franchise’s authentic lodestar, and it returns within the sixth installment, when a dancing M3GAN tears away his costume to disclose it is really Ghostface, brandishing a glint buck knife. As the specter guts the trailer’s first likelihood, Scary Movie 6 declares its tone. “Oh my God, I’ve stabbed her!” a lady cries. “I’m not her! My pronouns are they/them,” the sufferer cries again. “I stabbed them!”

Marlon himself, again in character because the lovable pothead Shorty Meeks, then makes it official within the subsequent scene, declaring on to the digicam, “We back!”

“What we’re trying to do is bring back laughter,” Marlon tells EW. “This is about bringing back comedy the way it used to be. And I think the only way to do it is you have to cancel the cancel culture.”

The trailer doubles down on that purpose, placing viewers on discover with a sequence of intertitles that spell out, “There are no safe spaces.” Faris’ Cindy Campbell performs lewd acts on Ghostface with a pair of dildos, one of many working youngsters from a Weapons spoof will get knocked into area by a automobile, and a younger woman opens a “present” from a parody of Terrifier‘s large dangerous, Art the Clown. It’s a severed pair of testicles, which she drops with a precocious, “What the f—?”

Marlon explains it merely: Scary Movie 6 is a return to the franchise’s fundamentals. “We’re gonna do what we always do. We’re gonna make fun of everybody because we’re equal opportunity offenders,” he says. “We have a recipe, we have a formula that you can’t mimic or copy. You could try, but it’s very specific. It’s how we grew up, and it’s how we see the world. It’s the household we were raised in with the sense of humor that we were all governed with, that we inherited from our mother.”

“We like to be fearless,” he continues. “Yet still do things with kid gloves to let people laugh at themselves.”

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Scary Movie 6‘s equal-opportunity offense is evident from the trailer. Safe areas and pronouns aren’t the one butts of the joke. When Cindy and Hall’s Brenda Meeks lastly reunite, a raveled, later-years-old Laurie Strode-looking Cindy tells her former bff, whose blob-like wig and comfortable cardigan make her a useless ringer for Octavia Spencer’s mathat they most likely should not hug.

“I’m a Republican now, so I’m supposed to be racist,” Cindy explains. But Brenda’s not responsible. “Oh, girl, I think all white people are racist anyway. Come here!” The final of the core 4, Shawn Wayans, who performed the closed jock Ray Wilkins in Scary Movie and its sequel, lastly pops up in Brenda’s home after a gaggle of teenagers tells her they’ve arrived to “do some half-gay s—.” Ray slides into body at Brenda’s aspect to query them: “Why half?”

“We laughed all the way through,” Marlon displays on the making of the movie. “We let everyone have fun, we let them improvise, and you’re gonna see it all over this movie. All of these references.” And there are a ton, from Sinners and Longlegs to Get Out and smile.

Marlon and his brothers’ final hurrah with the franchise was 2001’s Scary Movie 2. Although each the sequel and its predecessor have been field workplace sensations, grossing many instances over the modest budgets they have been made on, the Wayans’ parted methods forward of the greenlit third installment over disagreements with the collection’ government producer, Dimension Films founder Bob Weinstein.

He cites three causes for returning to the franchise after 25 years: the “dismantling of the Weinstein regime;” the encouragement of his father, Howell Stouten Wayans, who “wanted me and my brothers to work together again;” and “God,” who advised him, “This is what you should be doing.”

“I got me and my brothers together to come back to a franchise that we were removed from,” he says. “I think the assignment is to bring back the cast, bring back me and my brothers working together, and to bring back big-ass laughs. The world needs a big-ass laugh.”

Scary Movie 6 arrives in theaters June fifth.