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Anthony Anderson tells PEOPLE he didn’t realize Marlon Wayans and Shawn Wayans weren’t involved with the Scary Movie<\/em> franchise in the 2000s until after he joined for Scary Movie 3<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n- \n\n
Anderson returns for the new Scary Movie<\/em> and says Marlon called him soon after he “wrestled the franchise back into the family name”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n- \n\n
Scary Movie<\/em>, the first entry in the series since 2013, is in theaters June 5<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nAnthony Anderson<\/a> is returning to the Scary Movie<\/em><\/a>franchise the way he originally intended to join it: with Marlon Wayans<\/a> and Shawn Wayans behind the wheel.<\/p>\nAnderson, 55, famously appeared in the third and fourth entries in the Scary Movie<\/em> franchise in the mid-2000s. On the red carpet at the Peabody Awards in Beverly Hills, Calif., on Sunday, May 31, he told PEOPLE that back in the day, he signed on to those movies without realizing that franchise creators Marlon, 53, and Shawn, 55, were not involved.<\/p>\n“It’s great,” Anderson says of the franchise’s new entry, which hits theaters Friday, June 5. “You know, when I took the job for Scary Movie 3<\/em>, I was excited about doing the job because I thought I’d be working with my friends Marlon and Shawn and the entire Wayans family. I had no idea that they had left the franchise, and this [was] now just a Miramax production. So for me to do Scary Movie 3<\/em> and Scary Movie 4<\/em>, it was great to do that, but I thought I was going to be doing it with my friends.”<\/p>\n“And then they went on to do Scary Movie 5<\/em>, and then Marlon wrestled the franchise back into the family name, and I was one of his first phone calls to make,” Anderson says. “He was like, \u2018Yo, Ant, you want to be down in Scary Movie 6<\/em>?’ I was like, ‘Hell yeah, it’s about time we get to work together.’ “<\/p>\n\n\n<\/div>\nAnthony Anderson, Simon Rex and Charlie Sheen in Scary Movie 3
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Shawn and Marlon originated the Scary Movie<\/em> franchise with 2000’s original, a parody of popular ’90s slashers like Scream<\/em>, and its 2001 sequel Scary Movie 2<\/em>. Their older brother Keenen Ivory Wayans directed the original two movies.<\/p>\nMiramax \u2014 the studio that was once owned by Harvey Weinstein and his brother Bob Weinstein \u2014 moved forward with a third Scary Movie<\/em> entry in 2002 just after Keenen, Shawn and Marlon signed a deal to work with a different film studio, as Entertainment Weekly<\/em> reported at the time.<\/p>\nMarlon has said as recently as in a May 25 interview with Variety<\/em><\/a> that the Weinstein brothers refused the Wayans’ demands for raises to make a third Scary Movie<\/em> and subsequently stole their idea for Scary Movie 3<\/em>. “The franchise was stripped from us<\/a>,” he said in that interview. “And we were just asking for our fair share.\u201d<\/p>\nThe actor, writer and comedian announced that he and his brothers would return to make a new <\/a>Scary Movie<\/em><\/a> entry<\/a> in October 2024. The new movie sees the return of franchise leads Regina Hall<\/a> and Anna Faris<\/a>, and Wayans described it as a “reboot” to Variety<\/em> rather than the series’ sixth entry.<\/p>\n
Anthony Anderson tells PEOPLE he didn’t realize Marlon Wayans and Shawn Wayans weren’t involved with the Scary Movie<\/em> franchise in the 2000s until after he joined for Scary Movie 3<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n Anderson returns for the new Scary Movie<\/em> and says Marlon called him soon after he “wrestled the franchise back into the family name”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n Scary Movie<\/em>, the first entry in the series since 2013, is in theaters June 5<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n Anthony Anderson<\/a> is returning to the Scary Movie<\/em><\/a>franchise the way he originally intended to join it: with Marlon Wayans<\/a> and Shawn Wayans behind the wheel.<\/p>\n Anderson, 55, famously appeared in the third and fourth entries in the Scary Movie<\/em> franchise in the mid-2000s. On the red carpet at the Peabody Awards in Beverly Hills, Calif., on Sunday, May 31, he told PEOPLE that back in the day, he signed on to those movies without realizing that franchise creators Marlon, 53, and Shawn, 55, were not involved.<\/p>\n “It’s great,” Anderson says of the franchise’s new entry, which hits theaters Friday, June 5. “You know, when I took the job for Scary Movie 3<\/em>, I was excited about doing the job because I thought I’d be working with my friends Marlon and Shawn and the entire Wayans family. I had no idea that they had left the franchise, and this [was] now just a Miramax production. So for me to do Scary Movie 3<\/em> and Scary Movie 4<\/em>, it was great to do that, but I thought I was going to be doing it with my friends.”<\/p>\n “And then they went on to do Scary Movie 5<\/em>, and then Marlon wrestled the franchise back into the family name, and I was one of his first phone calls to make,” Anderson says. “He was like, \u2018Yo, Ant, you want to be down in Scary Movie 6<\/em>?’ I was like, ‘Hell yeah, it’s about time we get to work together.’ “<\/p>\n Anthony Anderson, Simon Rex and Charlie Sheen in Scary Movie 3 Shawn and Marlon originated the Scary Movie<\/em> franchise with 2000’s original, a parody of popular ’90s slashers like Scream<\/em>, and its 2001 sequel Scary Movie 2<\/em>. Their older brother Keenen Ivory Wayans directed the original two movies.<\/p>\n Miramax \u2014 the studio that was once owned by Harvey Weinstein and his brother Bob Weinstein \u2014 moved forward with a third Scary Movie<\/em> entry in 2002 just after Keenen, Shawn and Marlon signed a deal to work with a different film studio, as Entertainment Weekly<\/em> reported at the time.<\/p>\n Marlon has said as recently as in a May 25 interview with Variety<\/em><\/a> that the Weinstein brothers refused the Wayans’ demands for raises to make a third Scary Movie<\/em> and subsequently stole their idea for Scary Movie 3<\/em>. “The franchise was stripped from us<\/a>,” he said in that interview. “And we were just asking for our fair share.\u201d<\/p>\n The actor, writer and comedian announced that he and his brothers would return to make a new <\/a>Scary Movie<\/em><\/a> entry<\/a> in October 2024. The new movie sees the return of franchise leads Regina Hall<\/a> and Anna Faris<\/a>, and Wayans described it as a “reboot” to Variety<\/em> rather than the series’ sixth entry.<\/p>\n
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