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Don’t Be Afraid to Dive Into These Scary Movie Secrets

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Never fear, the new Scary Movie is here.

The sixth installment of the franchise hits theaters June 5, and the cast is so good it’s scary. Twenty-six years after appearing in the OG film, Marlon Wayans, Shawn Wayans, Anna Faris and Regina Hall are back to deal with the masked killer Ghostface and bring the laughs.

“It felt like yesterday,” Marlon—who also wrote and produced the first, second and sixth Scary Movie with Shawn—told Fandango in April. “It felt like a high school reunion when we all saw each other for the first time.”

Just like in the previous versions, the new movie parodies popular horror films, including recent hits Get Out, M3GAN, Sinners, Smile, The Substance and Weapons.

“We just threw everything in the kitchen sink,” Marlon added, “and said, ‘As long as it’s funny.'”

And it seems like nothing is off limits. “Nothing is sacred,” Paramount Pictures stated in its description. “No trope survives. Every line gets crossed. The Wayans are back to cancel the Cancel Culture.”

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Ultimately, the stars hope to make audiences scream with laughter.

“Hopefully it loosens everybody up to just come laugh again,” Marlon continued to Fandango. “Because the world is just so toxic and we all need to come together. And it’s medicine. Laughter is medicine. I’m not gonna change the world, but I wanna change your mood.”

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The “Core Four” aren’t the only cast members returning. Anthony Anderson—who was in the third and fourth Scary Movie—and Carmen Electra, who was in the first and fourth, also appear in the film.

It was a “huge moment for me,” the Baywatch alum told E! News’ Will Marfuggi about the first movie while attending the Scary Movie 6 premiere in L.A. June 3. “It really showed people that I have a good sense of humor about myself. I think before that, people didn’t know I was funny. They didn’t know I had the chops to pull off a role like that.”

If you’re afraid you don’t know enough about the franchise, read on for some Scary Movie secrets.

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1. Inspired by the trend of ’90s slasher films starring young and attractive casts, Shawn Wayans came up with the initial concept and the script was picked up by Dimensions, a studio that produced a majority of the films being parodied, before it was even finished. 2. The hardest role to cast was Cindy Campbell, which went to a then-unknown actress named Anna Faris.”The biggest surprise was Anna,” director Keenen Ivory Wayans told Entertainment Weekly. “And it wasn’t really a surprise, it was a gift. I had seen everybody, and I kept saying no to the point that the casting people were getting pissed. But I was looking for someone specific.”3. Prior to landing Scary Movie, Faris didn’t have head shots or an agent. “I had no idea what to say when he called ‘Action,'” she told EW. “I turned to [co-star] Jonny [Abrahams] and was like, ‘So wait, what are we supposed to do?’ And he was like, ‘Say your line.'”

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4. Alicia Silverstone reportedly turned down the role of Cindy. 5. While Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer are credited as two of the six writers on the film, they had no part in the final script due to a WGA decision after the pair had sold a spec script to Dimensions called Scream If You Know What I Did Last Halloween in 1998.6. Friedberg and Seltzer would go on to pen Date Movie, Epic Movie, Disaster Movie and other various spoof films, using “two of the six writers of Scary Movie” in promotional pieces for their films.

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7. While Carmen Electra‘s parody of Drew Barrymore‘s iconic early death in Scream was one of the film’s most-talked-about moments, the studio “didn’t want to cast” the Baywatch star. “They didn’t think she could do it. They thought she was cheesy, because – and this is no disrespect to Carmen – she was one of the first celebrities to be known more for who they were than for what they’d done, you know?” Keenen Ivory Wayans told EW. “But what they didn’t like about Carmen was what made her perfect, and that’s what I kept trying to explain.”8. Electra had actually auditioned for two other roles, including Buffy (which went to American Pie‘s Shannen Elizabeth) before later getting the call to play Drew Decker.

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9. “I remember they cut my hair shorter to look more like Drew Barrymore’s character,” Electra recalled in an interview with EW, adding they filmed the opening scene in one night. 10. Jenny McCarthy was reportedly offered the role of Drew Decker, but turned it down. She went on to star in Scary Movie 3. 11. The original working title for the script was Scary Movie was Last Summer I Screamed Because Friday the 13th Fell on Halloween. It was shortened to Scary Movie, which was the working title for Kevin Williamson‘s Scream.

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12. The director encouraged all of the actors to improvise, with Shannen Elizabeth telling EW, “Keenen said, ‘I want to shoot what’s on the page, and then I’m going to let you guys do anything you want. At the end of the day, I’m going to use whatever’s the funniest and the best, and I, as the director, will get credit for it.'”13. James Van Der Beek made a brief cameo in the film as his Dawson’ Creek character. “Hey, wrong set,” the late actor said while popping up in Cindy’s window as “I Don’t Wanna Wait” plays. 14. The original script allegedly featured a cameo by Jamie Lee Curtis reprising her iconic Halloween role.

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15. The producers initially wanted Aaliyah to play Brenda, the role that ultimately went to Regina Hall. But she turned it down out of respect for Brandy. “They wanted me to play Brandy, and kind of do a parody of her,” the late singer explained in an MTV2 interview. “I actually liked the script, I thought it was really funny, but I didn’t want anybody to take it like I was disrespecting her in anyway. So, I actually didn’t do it and it turned out to be a really funny movie.”16. Regina Hall auditioned four times for the role of Brenda, and told Fast Company, “A producer told me not to do Scary Movie. I mean I get it now, but I was like, ‘No! Of course I’m doing Scary Movie!’…That would’ve been bad if I said no!”17. Jared Leto reportedly turned down the role of Bobby in order to star in Requiem for a Dream.

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18. Director Keenen Ivory Wayans makes a cameo in the movie in the fake Amistad 2 trailer. 19. “No Shame. No Mercy. No sequel.” Of course, given the movie’s success, several sequels followed. The tagline for Scary Movie 2? “We lied.” 20. While they penned the sequel, the Wayans brothers left the Scary Movie franchise.”What my brothers and I did was take a $19 million movie and we made it into a half-a-billion-dollar franchise,” Marlon Wayans explained to the Chicago Tribune. “We got rushed to do a sequel. It still performed, but not the way we wanted it to. It wasn’t as good as the first one. It was all right…And then we read in the trades one day they were doing Scary Movie 3 with somebody else. We were like, ‘Wow, that’s interesting.’ They took a franchise we did and that bombed.”

(E! and Fandango are both part of Versant Media).

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