Marlon Wayans thinks “it’s time” to make a ‘White Chicks’ sequel.
The 52-year-old actor starred along with his brother Shawn Wayans, 54, within the 2004 action-comedy, and has now teased a follow-up flick could also be his subsequent mission after he and Shawn reunite to develop ‘Scary Film 6’.
Talking on ‘Good Morning America’, Marlon mentioned: “[Fans always ask] ‘When are you doing the sequel?’ They love that film.
“Hey, you recognize, I believe it is time. Let’s get ‘Scary Film 6’ achieved, after which we’ll go and convey out ‘White Chicks 2’.”
‘White Chicks’ – which additionally featured Terry Crews, Jaime King and Brittany Daniel – starred the Wayans brothers as a pair of FBI brokers who go undercover as white ladies to foil a kidnapping plot.
Whereas the white face facet of the film is now considered as inappropriate by some, Marlon beforehand insisted that cancel tradition should not have any place in comedy.
He informed Buzzfeed: “I do not know what planet we’re on, the place you assume individuals do not want laughter, and that individuals should be censored and cancelled. If a joke is gonna get me cancelled, thanks for doing me that favour.”
Marlon added it was “unhappy” that society was now “on this place the place we won’t giggle anymore”.
He mentioned: “I ain’t listening to this rattling era. I ain’t listening to those people: These scared-a** individuals, these scared executives.
“Y’all do what you wish to do? Nice. I am nonetheless gonna inform my jokes the way in which I inform them. And if you wish to make some cash, bounce on board. And if not, then I am going to discover a strategy to do it myself.
“I do know my viewers. My viewers involves my exhibits each weekend and so they depart feeling nice and laughing. One factor in regards to the Wayans, we have at all times informed the worst joke the easiest way.”
Marlon and Shawn will subsequent be working collectively on ‘Scary Film 6’, with the franchise set to be rebooted beneath ‘Quick and Livid’ producer Neal H. Moritz.
After creating the primary two entries within the ‘Scary Film’ sequence, the Wayans brothers departed the franchise for its subsequent three entries, and Marlon claimed that it was “snatched” away from them by The Weinstein Firm – led by the disgraced film mogul Harvey Weinstein.
Chatting with Kevin Hart on the ‘Comedy Gold Minds’ podcast, the actor mentioned: “We did not stroll away from a franchise. They did not wish to make our deal, and so they snatched it.
“We by no means walked away from our franchise that we created. It was taken and us being the creatives that we’re had been like, ‘Alright, guess’. Now watch what I create.”
Marlon additionally recalled that the household solely grew to become conscious that they’d now not be concerned within the sequence after they learn a information article over the Christmas holidays.
He mentioned: “The second they rushed us into, and by the third one, they did not wish to pay the cash, in order that they snatched it. We discovered on Christmas that they employed someone else to go do it.”
