Scary Film is coming again to skewer the horror style.
Paramount and Miramax are making a brand new tackle the franchise and count on to go earlier than cameras within the fall, Paramount revealed at CinemaCon Thursday. Quick and Livid producer Neal H. Moritz will produce the brand new Scary Film.
Scary Film launched in 2000, just some years after Scream and I Know What You Did Final Summer season arrived on the scene to dominate the horror panorama. Director Keenen Ivory Wayans’ characteristic grossed $278 million globally and starred Anna Faris, Regina Corridor and sparked 4 sequels, with director Malcom D. Lee’s Scary Film 5 debuting in 2013.
Miramax will finance the brand new Scary Film and Paramount will distribute. The information comes after Miramax named Jonathan Glickman CEO.
Scary Film has at all times been a sendup to horror, and because it final bowed in 2013, the style has advanced and risen to new heights, changing into one of many few reliable field workplace attracts, with powerhouses like Blumhouse dominating the panorama. It additionally comes just some years after 2022’s Scream gave that franchise new life (whereas additionally mocking modern-day style tropes and horror fan obsessions). In different phrases, there’s loads of new materials for Scary Film to take a stab at.
There’s no phrase on if this new take will characteristic authentic stars, all new forged, or a combination (a legacy sequel, if you’ll). Paramount didn’t supply a launch date, however listed it as among the many initiatives it goals to have prepared for 2025 or 2026.