Scary Movie Reboot Being Developed at Paramount

Paramount Pictures and Miramax are reviving the Scary Movie franchise with a reboot. Horror films continue to be all the rage at the box office, so it should come as no surprise that the franchise that became known for spoofing the best of them is making a comeback. Having taken aim at classics like The Exorcist, The Shining, and Scream, the franchise will have a whole new playground of horrors like Terrifier and Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey to lampoon very soon.

Per The Hollywood Reporter, a new Scary Movie entry is set to begin filming later this year, reportedly as early as the fall. The news was unveiled during Paramount’s presentation at CinemaCon in Las Vegas as a joint venture with Miramax that will see Fast & Furious producer Neil H. Mortiz producing the project.

No word on whether original cast members such as Anna Faris or Regina Hall will be returning or if it will feature a brand-new cast, but the film is eyeing a release sometime in 2025. It’s also unclear whether this will be a reboot or sequel but, either way, the new movie will likely make fun of itself in that regard.

The Scary Movie Franchise Parodied the Best of the Best in Horror

The Scary Movie franchise began in 2000 in the wake of the success of 1996’s Scream and 1997’s I Know What You Did Last Summer. Directed by Keenan Ivory Wayans and written by Marlon and Shawn Wayans, the film serves as a slasher parody that follows a group of teenagers who accidentally hit a man with their car, dump his body in a lake, and swear to secrecy. A year later, someone donning a Ghostface mask and robe begins stalking and hunting them down one by one.

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The movie was a massive hit upon release, grossing $278 million globally on a slim $19 million budget. Despite mixed reviews and some of its most crude jokes dividing some critics, the movie spawned a franchise of four sequels, beginning with Scary Movie 2 in 2001. The Wayans returned for that installment and, even though the film was technically successful with a gross of $141.2 million worldwide on a $45 million budget, it fell short of its predecessor by some ways.

When Scary Movie 3 was released in 2003, the Wayans were pushed out of the franchise and David Zucker, the man behind parody staples such as Airplane! and the Naked Gun franchise, was brought in to direct. The result was a film that dropped the R-rated sensibilities of the first two films, but it was a return to box office supremacy, with the third installment grossing $220.7 million globally on a $48 million budget.

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Zucker returned to direct Scary Movie 4 in 2006 and although grosses were down to $178 million, it was still on the high end for the franchise at that point. The final film of the series to date, Scary Movie 5, was directed by Malcolm D. Lee and was released in 2013. To date, it’s the lowest-grossing film of the franchise, making just $78.4 million.

The Scary Movie franchise, across all of its films, has spoofed some of the biggest entries in the horror genre, including Halloween, The Shining, The Blair Witch Project, The Exorcist, The Haunting, Signs, The Ring, and What Lies Beneath, among others.