Brenda Meeks and Cindy Campbell are back, baby!
Entertainment Weekly can confirm that Regina Hall and Anna Faris will reprise their roles as onscreen BFFs for the Scary Movie revival kick-started by the franchise’s original creators, the Wayans Brothers.
“We can’t wait to bring Brenda and Cindy back to life and be reunited with our great friends Keenen, Shawn and Marlon — three men we’d literally die for (in Brenda’s case, again.),” Hall and Faris said in a statement.
Marlon Wayans confirmed the news in a post on his Instagram, sharing a photo of the duo from the first film.
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Regina Hall and Anna Faris in ‘Scary Movie 4’
Marlon, who co-wrote and starred in the beloved horror spoof in 2000, announced last October that he was returning to the franchise he helped found two decades ago. “Last week i said i had a HUGE ANNOUNCEMENT to make well here it is… WE’RE BACK!!!” he wrote on his social media accounts at the time.
Wayans, who played Shorty Meeks in the original Scary Movie and its 2001 sequel, said that his family will breathe new life into the series again. “After nearly 20 years, the Wayans brothers are finally going to give the fans what they’ve been asking for… a return to the SCARY MOVIE franchise!” he wrote. “We’re looking forward to having fun on the big screen again.”
Marlon’s brother Shawn Wayans, who co-wrote and played Ray Wilkins in the first two movies, also posted the same statement on Instagram. In his post, Marlon also tagged his other brother, Keenen Ivory Wayans, who directed those first two films.
The brothers are reuniting for the first time in 18 years to write an all new, original script for the restart of the franchise alongside Rick Alvarez. The Wayans and Alvarez also serve as producers for the new film.
This will be the sixth film in the franchise and will be directed by Michael Tiddes, a long-time Wayans collaborator who previously directed three Wayans films: A Haunted House and the Netflix movies Naked and Sextuplets.
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Marlon Wayans in ‘Scary Movie 2’
Scary Movie made $278 million on a $19-million budget, irreverently parodying teen slashers like Scream and I Know What You Did Last Summer. Scary Movie 2, which lampooned haunted house movies like The Haunting and The Exorcist, made $141 million on a $45-million budget. The Wayans brothers departed the franchise after the first two movies, though it persisted under the creative direction of comedy legend David Zucker (Airplane, The Naked Gun) in subsequent sequels in 2003 and 2006. Faris and Hall were the only core cast members to appear in all four of the first four films.
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Fans have been championing for Hall and Regina’s return since the revival was first announced at CinemaCon in April 2024.
Both stars have been candidly open about returning to the franchise, but, as Faris told PEOPLE last July, they wanted to do so together.
“I would love to work with Regina again,” Faris said when asked what it would take her to return to the Scary Movie franchise. “I just love her so much. We would make each other giggle all day long. Regina Hall would be my answer. And money. But mostly all Regina!”
“I love that franchise,” Faris added. “It was like my bootcamp, my beginnings. If there is a high school comparison for my growth experience, those four movies played an important role in my life in terms of teaching me how to use props, teaching me how to fall, how to get hit in the head — how to hold Chiclets in my mouth and then spit them out with blood at a convenient time for the camera.”
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Jon Abrahams, Shawn Wayans and Marlon Wayans in ‘Scary Movie’
The series was previously revived with 2013’s Scary Movie 5, which was directed by Malcolm D. Lee and cowritten by Zucker. The only cast members to return from previous entries in the series were Charlie Sheen, Simon Rex, Molly Shannon, and Darrell Hammond, who all played different characters in the fifth installment than they did in prior films.
Scary Movie is currently slated to hit theaters on June 12, 2026.
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