There is a specific kind of Hollywood grievance that ages well, and Marlon Wayans has been sitting on his for roughly two decades. The short version: the Wayans brothers created Scary Movie, the franchise got pulled away from them by Miramax, and three increasingly diminished sequels followed without the family attached. The longer version is what Wayans laid out in a wide-ranging interview with Variety published in June 2026 — and the longer version includes a sequel, a president's golf club, and a celibacy clause.
Wayans confirmed that White Chicks 2 is moving forward, and that the script includes a sequence set at Mar-a-Lago. He did not elaborate extensively on the scene, but the location choice alone signals the film intends to operate at the same pitch of absurdist provocation as the original 2004 comedy, which has quietly accumulated a second life on streaming among younger audiences who were not born when it hit theaters.
The interview also surfaced one of the more unusual onset contracts in recent memory. When Wayans appeared in Darren Aronofsky's Requiem for a Dream in 2000, Aronofsky reportedly asked him to abstain from sex for the duration of production — a request Wayans says he honored. The film's unflinching depiction of addiction and degradation demanded a specific physical and psychological register, and Aronofsky was known for total-environment direction on that set.
On the franchise question, Wayans told Variety that he and his brothers are back in control of Scary Movie and intend to produce the next installment themselves. The original 2000 film, which the brothers wrote and Keenen Ivory Wayans directed, grossed more than $278 million worldwide on a $19 million budget. The family's absence from the sequels was, by any accounting, a significant creative and financial loss.
As for Saturday Night Live, Wayans indicated the conversation is ongoing. No host date has been announced.