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One of the most controversial comedies of modern times is getting a long-awaited sequel. Released more than two decades ago, White Chicks stars Shawn Wayans and Marlon Wayans as two FBI agents who must go undercover as two white, female socialites...using “whiteface.” Now, finally, the cinematic gods have heard our endless cries as Marlon Wayans confirms that there are plans in place to bring back Brittany and Tiffany Wilson for White Chicks 2.

Speaking with Good Morning America, Wayans revealed that, following the release of another of the Wayans’ highly anticipated comedy sequels, Scary Movie 6, they will start work on White Chicks 2, with the actor, comedian, writer, and producer saying, “it’s time.”

"[Fans always ask] 'When are you doing the sequel?' They love that movie," he said. "Hey, you know, I think it's time. Let's get Scary Movie 6 done, and then we'll go and bring out White Chicks 2."

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Released in 2004, White Chicks may be the most controversial of any movie made by the Wayans family. There has been some debate over whether a film with its concept could be made today, but Marlon Wayans is hinting that a sequel will soon be made.

In previous years, Wayans has expressed his desire to see White Chicks 2 happen, but the potential sequel has never managed to get off the ground. Now, the odds of the sequel happening may increase exponentially if the upcoming Scary Movie sequel turns out to be a hit with filmgoers. The Wayans Brothers are reuniting to develop Scary Movie 6, and Marlon shared with Good Morning America that he's looking to finally get work on White Chicks 2 started as their next potential project.

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One of the Wayans Brothers' most controversial movies is now streaming for free. White Chicks is available to watch on Tubi's streaming platform as of Feb. 1.

White Chicks was directed by Keenen Ivory Wayans and starred Marlon Wayans and Shawn Wayans. The Wayans brothers played Marcus Anthony II and Kevin Copeland, two black FBI agents who go undercover as white women to protect two hotel heiresses that are being targeted in a kidnapping plot. The film also starred John Heard, Busy Philipps, Terry Crews and Jaime King.

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The buddy cop comedy film was released in 2004 to largely negative reviews. Twenty-one years after its release, the film has a mere 15% critics' rating on Rotten Tomatoes.

Twelve years have gone by since the release of a new entry in the Scary Movie horror parody series – but the franchise isn’t going to remain dormant for much longer. Last April, it was announced that the Miramax label at Paramount, which is now operating under new boss Jonathan Glickman, had given the greenlight to a new Scary Movie sequel, with the plan being to get the film into theatres sometime in 2025. Now we know exactly when the new movie is going to be released… but it’s not going to be this year. Scary Movie 6 is scheduled to reach theatres on June 12, 2026. As of right now, we know this is going to put it in direct competition with the next movie from the Daniels, the directing duo behind Best Picture Oscar winner Everything Everywhere All at Once.

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Eleven years have gone by since the release of a new entry in the Scary Movie horror parody series – but the franchise isn’t going to remain dormant for much longer. Back in April, it was announced that the Miramax label at Paramount, which is now operating under new boss Jonathan Glickman, had given the greenlight to a new Scary Movie sequel, with the plan being to get the film into theatres sometime in 2025. We recently learned that the series is being revived with the help of the people who got it started in the first place: the Wayans Brothers – and now Regina Hall, who played the character Brenda Meeks in the first four movies, has said she thinks it would be fun to come back and work on the new sequel with the Wayans.

Directed by In Living Color creator Keenen Ivory Wayans from a screenplay written by a bunch of people,...

Eleven years have gone by since the release of a new entry in the Scary Movie horror parody series – but the franchise isn’t going to remain dormant for much longer, and it’s being revived with the help of the people who got it started in the first place: the Wayans Brothers! Back in April, it was announced that the Miramax label at Paramount, which is now operating under new boss Jonathan Glickman, had given the greenlight to a new Scary Movie sequel, with the plan being to get the film into theatres sometime in 2025. That announcement didn’t include any mention of writers or a director – but now Deadline has revealed that Scary Movie 6 marks the return of the Wayans Brothers to the franchise. They haven’t been involved with the Scary Movie series since the second movie.

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Two decades after the release of White Chicks in theaters, the film is now streaming on Netflix. The film was not greeted with a warm reception and even generated controversy for its premise, but it has become a cult classic over the past 20 years.

The movie was directed by Keenen Ivory Wayans, who co-wrote the script with Shawn Wayans, Marlon Wayans, Andy McElfresh, Michael Anthony Snowden, and Xavier Cook. Shawn and Marlon also lead the cast, portraying two brothers in the FBI who go undercover as young white women by using "whiteface" in order to keep them protected from a kidnapping plot. The plot has had some people referring to White Chicks as a "racist" film, a claim that persists two decades later, resulting in a recent response from Marlon Wayans.

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White Chicks is a movie that has developed a large cult following over the years, even if the film itself has fallen into the category of wouldnt be made today. It seems, though, that not everyone who was part of the film was that impressed with it even when it came out 20 years ago. In a recent interview with NPR, Busy Philipps shared her candid thoughts on how she was embarrassed by the way people reacted to White Chicks on its release especially when it stopped her being part of a much more successful movie.

White Chicks was a financial success, with a $113 million worldwide gross, but crashed to a Tomatometer score of 15%, and an audience approval rating of 55% on Rotten Tomatoes. The creation of Marlon and Shawn Wayans, the comedy movie saw the pair playing two disgraced FBI agents who are forced to disguise themselves as the white chicks...

A few months ago, Paramount and Miramax announced that they are reviving the Scary Movie horror parody series to bring a Scary Movie 6 to theatres sometime in 2025 – and that announcement has inspired us to go back and revisit the earlier entries in the franchise. Last month, we covered the original Scary Movie, and now time for Scary Movie 2 (watch it Here) to get the Revisited treatment. You can hear all about it in the video embedded above.

Directed by Keenen Ivory Wayans from a screenplay written by the team of Shawn Wayans, Marlon Wayans, Alyson Fouse, Greg Grabianski, Dave Polsky, Michael Anthony Snowden, and Craig Wayans, Scary Movie 2 has the following synopsis: As the supernatural extension of the first film, Scary Movie 2 casts its satirical eye on such iconic classics as The Exorcist, House on Haunted Hill, and Poltergeist, as well as the more recent films Hannibal and What Lies Beneath.

Eleven years have gone by since the release of a new entry in the Scary Movie horror parody series – but the franchise isn’t going to remain dormant for much longer. Deadline reports that the Miramax label at Paramount, which is now operating under new boss Jonathan Glickman, has given the greenlight to a new Scary Movie sequel, with the plan being to get the film into theatres sometime in 2025. If any writers or a director are attached to the project, they weren’t named in this announcement.

Directed by In Living Color creator Keenen Ivory Wayans from a screenplay written by a bunch of people, the first Scary Movie was released by Dimension Films back in 2000. Scary Movie 2 was released in 2001, and the Wayans remained at the head of the creative team for that one. Keenen Ivory Wayans directed it from a screenplay credited to Shawn Wayans, Marlon Wayans,...

Fans of the 2004 comedy White Chicks can rejoice as a sequel to the Wayans brothers’ film appears to be in the works.

Terry Crews, who portrayed professional basketball player Latrell Spencer in the movie, revealed he had recently discussed the idea with Shawn Wayans, who assured him that a sequel was happening.

“I actually got with Shawn [Wayans] and he was like, ‘Man, we’re doing it, we’re getting it going,’ ” Crews told Andy Cohen on a recent episode of Watch What Happens Live.

The 50-year-old actor joked he’s been keeping in shape over the years in hopes of a potential White Chicks sequel.

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In the can-you-top-this sweepstakes that inspires makers of drag comedies, the Wayans Bros. have clearly hit on the screwiest gimmick yet: Two homeboy FBI agents go undercover as white women. White Chicks not only scrambles lines of race and gender but does riffs on class, sex, etiquette, high society and catfights that you wouldn't believe. Willing to do almost anything to get a laugh, director Keenen Ivory Wayans and his co-conspirators -- his brothers, co-writers and stars Shawn and Marlon -- along with a swarm of co-writers and co-producers throw everything at the screen to see what sticks. A fair amount does.

This is the kind of film that will leave many audience members groaning with laughter -- and others simply groaning. It's skit/situation comedy that exploits stereotypes with a vengeance and knows no shame in borrowing from much better movies ranging from Some Like It Hot to Tootsie. With theaters hosting such "white" comedies as "Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story" and The Terminal, this urban comedy -- which actually features more white actors than black -- should make clever counterprogramming. Certainly this is a smarter and much better movie than the Wayanses Scary Movie series, so boxoffice prospects look promising.

Shawn and Marlon Wayans play two hapless FBI agents and brothers, Kevin and Marcus Copeland, who have a talent for deep undercover disguises but no talent whatsoever for arresting bad guys. About the only thing their boss (Frankie Faison) trusts them to do is transport two socialite heir-heads, Brittany and Tiffany Wilson (Maitland Ward and Anne Dudek), believed to be the targets of a kidnapping, to a debutante blowout weekend in the toney seaside resort of the Hamptons.

Then a hysterical sequence involving a pampered dog and a traffic crash renders the Wilson sisters unfit to party. So the brothers decide to go undercover as the sisters. Once the two become encased in layers of paint, wigs, masks and costumes, they actually do talk and behave like the two vacuous blondes -- think the Hilton sisters -- they are impersonating. So it's off to the Hamptons, where Brittany and Tiffany encounter the sisters' hated rivals, Heather and Megan Vandergeld (Jaime King and Brittany Daniel), as well as their best gal pals (Busy Philipps, Jennifer Carpenter and Jessica Cauffiel).

From here on, what passes for a plot guides the film through a series of situations that underscore, let us say, different points of view -- black vs. white, male vs. female -- regarding music, clothes, shopping, weight gain, dancing, romancing and social climbing. The comic batting average here is not bad so long, as you don't mind singles, bunts and bases on balls rather than booming home runs. Logic is thrown to the wind, and many characters who are meant to be smart -- for instance, a supposedly ace TV reporter (Rochelle Aytes), who catches the eye of Kevin/Brittany -- must look dumb for the masquerade to work.

The set pieces come off well: A shopping excursion where Marcus/Tiffany must struggle into clothes two sizes too small; a dance-off between the rival female cliques; a date between a black superstar athlete (Terry Crews) and Marcus/Tiffany, where everything Tiffany does to gross him out turns him on; a chaotic fashion show, where the real Wilson sisters and their male replicants show up.

Marlon and Shawn Wayans, in roles they conceived for themselves, make credible white chicks. One does need to consult a program, however, to remember which one is Tiffany or Brittany. Marlon has one line, possibly the funniest in the film, that can only be funny if delivered by a black man impersonating a white woman.

Credit special effects makeup artists Greg Cannom and Keith Vanderlaan with the eerie ability to transform two thin black men into voluptuous white chicks. And credit cinematographer Steven Bernstein and designer Paul J. Peters with transforming Vancouver in the fall into the Hamptons in the summer, quite possibly the harder task.

WHITE CHICKS

Columbia Pictures

Revolution Studios presents a Wayans Bros. production

Credits:

Director: Keenen Ivory Wayans

Screenwriters: Keenen Ivory Wayans, Shawn Wayans, Marlon Wayans, Andy McElfresh, Michael Anthony Snowden, Xavier Cook

Story by: Keenen Ivory Wayans, Shawn Wayans, Marlon Wayans

Producers: Keenen Ivory Wayans, Shawn Wayans, Marlon Wayans, Rick Alvarez, Lee R. Mayes

Director of photography: Steven Bernstein

Production designer: Paul J. Peters

Music: Teddy Castellucci

Costume designer: Jori Woodman

Editors: Jeffrey Stephen Gourson, Stuart Pappe

Cast:

Kevin Copeland: Shawn Wayans

Marcus Copeland: Marlon Wayans

Heather Vandergeld: Jaime King

Section Chief Gordon: Frankie Faison

Agent Harper: Lochlyn Munro

Warren Vandergeld

John Heard

Karen: Busy Philipps

Latrell Spencer: Terry Crews

MPAA rating PG-13

Running time -- 107 minutes...

In the can-you-top-this sweepstakes that inspires makers of drag comedies, the Wayans Bros. have clearly hit on the screwiest gimmick yet: Two homeboy FBI agents go undercover as white women. "White Chicks" not only scrambles lines of race and gender but does riffs on class, sex, etiquette, high society and catfights that you wouldn't believe. Willing to do almost anything to get a laugh, director Keenen Ivory Wayans and his co-conspirators -- his brothers, co-writers and stars Shawn and Marlon -- along with a swarm of co-writers and co-producers throw everything at the screen to see what sticks. A fair amount does.

This is the kind of film that will leave many audience members groaning with laughter -- and others simply groaning. It's skit/situation comedy that exploits stereotypes with a vengeance and knows no shame in borrowing from much better movies ranging from "Some Like It Hot" to "Tootsie". With theaters hosting such "white" comedies as "Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story" and "The Terminal", this urban comedy -- which actually features more white actors than black -- should make clever counterprogramming. Certainly this is a smarter and much better movie than the Wayanses "Scary Movie" series, so boxoffice prospects look promising.

Shawn and Marlon Wayans play two hapless FBI agents and brothers, Kevin and Marcus Copeland, who have a talent for deep undercover disguises but no talent whatsoever for arresting bad guys. About the only thing their boss (Frankie Faison) trusts them to do is transport two socialite heir-heads, Brittany and Tiffany Wilson (Maitland Ward and Anne Dudek), believed to be the targets of a kidnapping, to a debutante blowout weekend in the toney seaside resort of the Hamptons.

Then a hysterical sequence involving a pampered dog and a traffic crash renders the Wilson sisters unfit to party. So the brothers decide to go undercover as the sisters. Once the two become encased in layers of paint, wigs, masks and costumes, they actually do talk and behave like the two vacuous blondes -- think the Hilton sisters -- they are impersonating. So it's off to the Hamptons, where Brittany and Tiffany encounter the sisters' hated rivals, Heather and Megan Vandergeld (Jaime King and Brittany Daniel), as well as their best gal pals (Busy Philipps, Jennifer Carpenter and Jessica Cauffiel).

From here on, what passes for a plot guides the film through a series of situations that underscore, let us say, different points of view -- black vs. white, male vs. female -- regarding music, clothes, shopping, weight gain, dancing, romancing and social climbing. The comic batting average here is not bad so long, as you don't mind singles, bunts and bases on balls rather than booming home runs. Logic is thrown to the wind, and many characters who are meant to be smart -- for instance, a supposedly ace TV reporter (Rochelle Aytes), who catches the eye of Kevin/Brittany -- must look dumb for the masquerade to work.

The set pieces come off well: A shopping excursion where Marcus/Tiffany must struggle into clothes two sizes too small; a dance-off between the rival female cliques; a date between a black superstar athlete (Terry Crews) and Marcus/Tiffany, where everything Tiffany does to gross him out turns him on; a chaotic fashion show, where the real Wilson sisters and their male replicants show up.

Marlon and Shawn Wayans, in roles they conceived for themselves, make credible white chicks. One does need to consult a program, however, to remember which one is Tiffany or Brittany. Marlon has one line, possibly the funniest in the film, that can only be funny if delivered by a black man impersonating a white woman.

Credit special effects makeup artists Greg Cannom and Keith Vanderlaan with the eerie ability to transform two thin black men into voluptuous white chicks. And credit cinematographer Steven Bernstein and designer Paul J. Peters with transforming Vancouver in the fall into the Hamptons in the summer, quite possibly the harder task.

WHITE CHICKS

Columbia Pictures

Revolution Studios presents a Wayans Bros. production

Credits:

Director: Keenen Ivory Wayans

Screenwriters: Keenen Ivory Wayans, Shawn Wayans, Marlon Wayans, Andy McElfresh, Michael Anthony Snowden, Xavier Cook

Story by: Keenen Ivory Wayans, Shawn Wayans, Marlon Wayans

Producers: Keenen Ivory Wayans, Shawn Wayans, Marlon Wayans, Rick Alvarez, Lee R. Mayes

Director of photography: Steven Bernstein

Production designer: Paul J. Peters

Music: Teddy Castellucci

Costume designer: Jori Woodman

Editors: Jeffrey Stephen Gourson, Stuart Pappe

Cast:

Kevin Copeland: Shawn Wayans

Marcus Copeland: Marlon Wayans

Heather Vandergeld: Jaime King

Section Chief Gordon: Frankie Faison

Agent Harper: Lochlyn Munro

Warren Vandergeld

John Heard

Karen: Busy Philipps

Latrell Spencer: Terry Crews

MPAA rating PG-13

Running time -- 107 minutes...