Regina Hall Teases Brenda’s Return in ‘Scary Movie 6’
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NEED TO KNOW
- Regina Hall returns as Brenda in the upcoming Scary Movie 6, a sequel in Marlon and Shawn Wayans’ horror spoof franchise
- “I don’t know if I have high hopes for Brenda,” admitted the One Battle After Another actress on The Jennifer Hudson Show
- Hall and Scary Movie costar Anna Faris confirmed they were returning for the sixth installment, in theaters June 12, 2026
Regina Hall is thriving, but her hapless Scary Movie character? Maybe not so much.
“I’m very excited to see where Brenda will be,” Hall, 54, teased on The Jennifer Hudson Show of the upcoming Scary Movie 6 (in theaters June 12, 2026).
“I don’t know if I have high hopes for Brenda in life,” she quipped. “I don’t know where Brenda made it to. But I’m excited to see where she is.”
In October 2024, Marlon Wayans announced that he and his brother Shawn Wayans are creating a sixth installment of the horror spoof movie franchise they co-wrote and starred in. Their brother Keenen Wayans, who directed the first two films starting back in 2000, is back as a producer on the new Michael Tiddes-directed flick.
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In August, Hall and Anna Faris and Regina Hall were confirmed to be back on board as their beloved characters, Cindy and Brenda, after sitting out the fifth film that was released in 2013.
“I’m really excited to work with the rest of the cast,” Hall told Hudson, 44, alongside her One Battle After Another castmates Teyana Taylor and Chase Infiniti.
“We can’t wait,” said Hudson of Scary Movie 6. “And shout out to Marlon Wayans, he is killing it!”
In a joint statement to Deadline in August, Faris, 48, and Hall said, “We can’t wait to bring Brenda and Cindy back to life and be reunited with our great friends Keenen, Shawn and Marlon — three men we’d literally die for (in Brenda’s case, again.)”
Among the many recurring gags in the Scary Movie series, which parodied horror hits including Scream, The Ring and The Sixth Sense, were the many deaths of Brenda. In 2003’s Scary Movie 3, Hall’s character is killed, then mourned in a wake where her body is blown up. She then reappears alive later without explanation.
“We got the gloves off. We’re going R,” Marlon, 53, told PEOPLE exclusively back in March of the upcoming sequel. “We’re going to have the same fun and the same kind of tone and Wayans flavor that we gave on the first one.”
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Hall, Taylor and Infiniti costar with Leonardo DiCaprio, Sean Penn, Benicio del Toro and more in Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another, in theaters Friday, Sept. 26.
Scary Movie 6 is in theaters June 12, 2026.
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