Marlon Wayans confirms return as Shorty in 'Scary Movie 6'; Its preparation includes losing the 'Him' muscle

The popular saga Scary Movieof the Wayans brothers, prepares his return with a new installment, the sequel Scary Movie 6.

Marlon Wayanswho is in full promotion of its most recent feature film, sports terror Himconfirms that their participation goes beyond creative, because also will repeat your role as Shorty Meeksa role for which it has already begun to prepare.

After winning muscle to convince a professional footballer in the aforementioned way Him –Which premieres in cinemas next week.

This tells Wayans to EW:

“Physically, I like to follow a crazy routine. Even right now, it's Scary Movie. I just lost 9 kilos leaving my butt daily because I didn't want to appear on the set as muscular shorty with 102 kilos. It would be a laziness on me. I want to work, I want to look like Shorty. So when I can [con su voz de Shorty] Fun and … people can laugh at me, son. “

This week, Wayans revealed the list of horror projects that will be parodied in Scary Movie 6, naming I Know What You Did Last Summer, Scream, Heretic, Longlegs, Get Out, Nopey Sinnersbut it also shares EW on how to make fun of these premises in the era of “High terror”of which Him It serves as a great example:

“I think you have to recognize how comedy has changed. Not only terror has changed, but also movies, the public, the world. I think that The way to achieve this is to integrate the generational gap into the conversation. This is how we build the movie to be able to talk about everything. It is a conversation with these fun characters, which are casually going through this. The more pressure the characters are exerted and the more scary the situations are, it is when they really get to know them. “

The saga, created and developed by the Marlon Wayans brothers, Shawn Wayans y Bringaen ivory wanayansdoes Popular horror films satire. The original film was launched in 2000, some years later of the Slashers cinema premieres Scream y I Know What You Did Last Summerso it is almost “drawer” that these two films continue to be part of more mockery.

The returns of Regina Hall y Anna Farisrepeating their roles like Brenda and Cindy, respectively.

“We have plans to bring some more”Wayans advances, but refuses to give more details because “There is no agreement” still.

Hall and Faris starred in the first four films of the franchise, including the original 2000, and the sequels of 2001, 2003, and 2006. The fifth delivery of 2013 did not include its participations.

Wayans promises one Scary Movie 6 No restrictions and with equal opportunities for all:

“We always do so. We just want to make everyone laughand we don't care if you are sensitive. Even sensitive people need to laugh at themselves. “

“Let you know that we not only laugh at you, you have the opportunity to laugh at others. When we did White Chickswe make fun of all. We make fun of blacks, we make fun of whites, we make fun of Hispanics. That is what we do. We make fun of the world, we take it lightly. It is not to harm, it is to contribute humor. You can offend someone here and there, but well, not all jokes will work 100%, but if you tell a joke and 100 people laugh and one leaves, it is still a good joke. “

“I think this movie we are working on It will be a great conversation issuewhere we can all sit and laugh together, three generations of people who have not seen a great comedy in a long time“.

Paramount Pictures and Miramax are the studies that support Scary Movie 6. The sequel is done as part of the first Paramount association with Miramax, the study behind the film franchise.

Miramax will completely finance the production, and Paramount will be in charge of the distribution.

The five deliveries that so far make up the saga, have raised more than $ 896 million worldwide.

Keenen Ivory was the director of the first two deliveries, while Marlon and Shawn were screenwriters and protagonists of the first two deliveries. The Wayans Brothers had no participation in the next three deliveries.

Scary Movie 6 marks the First meeting of the Wayans brothers in a franchise project in 18 years. Filming begins in October this year. Michael Tiddings will be the director, with a script written by the Wayans brothers y Rick Alvarez.

Tiddes and Alvarez were director and screenwriter, respectively, of Marlon Wayans projects as A Haunted House, A Haunted House 2, Naked, Fifty Shades of Black, Sextuplets.

Paramount Pictures plans the premiere Scary Movie 6 in cinemas for June 12, 2026.