{"id":342962,"date":"2026-03-06T20:29:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T01:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/david-zucker-weighs-in-on-marlon-wayans-scary-movie-franchise-claim"},"modified":"2026-03-06T20:29:04","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T01:29:04","slug":"david-zucker-weighs-in-on-marlon-wayans-scary-movie-franchise-claim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/david-zucker-weighs-in-on-marlon-wayans-scary-movie-franchise-claim","title":{"rendered":"David Zucker Weighs In On Marlon Wayans&#8217; &#8216;Scary Film&#8217; Franchise Declare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<section id=\"cb-fe0804127cd995ccc7fbec391261dbee\" class=\"canvas-block canvas-block-permalink canvas-video-block canvas-video-block-permalink canvas-video-block--default canvas-block-is-first \">\n<div class=\"video-block\">\n<div class=\"ratio ratio-16x9\">\n<div id=\"video-player-b1972aa4-5fb0-442a-bbcb-d681dacff766-762872592-image-holder\" class=\"ratio ratio-item video-block__image-holder\">\n     <button class=\"ratio-item icon-video--shadow video-block__icon\" id=\"video-player-b1972aa4-5fb0-442a-bbcb-d681dacff766-762872592-play-btn\"><br \/>\n      <span class=\"visually-hidden\">Play video content<\/span><br \/>\n     <\/button><br \/>\n          <img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Bob Weinstein\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/imagez.tmz.com\/image\/6f\/16by9\/2026\/03\/06\/6fd4f05c37504044bb1f99bcc9feeaa9_md.jpg\" alt=\"030626_david_zucker_kal\" width=\"728\" height=\"410\" class=\"img-fluid\"\/>\n         <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>          <span class=\"media-credit video-block__media-credit\">TMZ.com<\/span>\n     <\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p><!--\/#cb-fe0804127cd995ccc7fbec391261dbee--><\/p>\n<section id=\"cb-8bfc0a209cd3f0cfcd2791de515b2d25\" class=\"canvas-block canvas-block-permalink canvas-text-block canvas-text-block-permalink canvas-text-block--default \" data-context=\"{&quot;section&quot;:&quot;permalink&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;text_block&quot;}\">\n<p>&#8220;Scary Movie&#8221; director <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/people\/david-zucker\/\" rel=\"noreferrer\"><strong>David Zucker<\/strong><\/a> is weighing in on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/people\/marlon-wayans\/\" rel=\"noreferrer\"><strong>Marlon Wayans<\/strong><\/a>&#8216; claim that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/people\/harvey-weinstein\/\" rel=\"noreferrer\"><strong>Harvey<\/strong><\/a><strong> <\/strong>and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/people\/bob-weinstein\/\" rel=\"noreferrer\"><strong>Bob Weinstein<\/strong><\/a> stole the franchise &#8230; telling TMZ this kind of thing happens in Hollywood all the time, and in his view it&#8217;s just part of the business.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<p><!--\/#cb-8bfc0a209cd3f0cfcd2791de515b2d25--><\/p>\n<section id=\"cb-f304b4bdee590683601873016a0a7bd3\" class=\"canvas-block canvas-block-permalink canvas-text-block canvas-text-block-permalink canvas-text-block--default \" data-context=\"{&quot;section&quot;:&quot;permalink&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;text_block&quot;}\">\n<p>We caught up with David in L.A. Thursday, and while he says he doesn\u2019t know every detail of the situation, he defended a studio&#8217;s right to make creative decisions &#8230; pointing to his own experience with his &#8220;Naked Gun&#8221; franchise.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<p><!--\/#cb-f304b4bdee590683601873016a0a7bd3--><\/p>\n<section id=\"cb-0b5b792a07e650eff4bc239ee314b6c9\" class=\"canvas-block canvas-block-permalink canvas-text-block canvas-text-block-permalink canvas-text-block--default \" data-context=\"{&quot;section&quot;:&quot;permalink&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;text_block&quot;}\">\n<p>ICYMI, Marlon accused the Weinstein brothers of swiping the original &#8220;Scary Movie&#8221; concept &#8212; which started as a Wayans family idea back in 2000 &#8212; with the studio Miramax claiming it and running with the idea, continuing to make sequels without their involvement.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<p><!--\/#cb-0b5b792a07e650eff4bc239ee314b6c9--><\/p>\n<section id=\"cb-1032a2ca86236e71fdb2f5e4158663db\" class=\"canvas-block canvas-block-permalink canvas-youtube-video-block canvas-youtube-video-block-permalink canvas-youtube-video-block--default \">\n<\/section>\n<p><!--\/#cb-1032a2ca86236e71fdb2f5e4158663db--><br \/>\n<a id=\"continued\" class=\"continued-anchor\"\/><\/p>\n<section id=\"cb-f978ab44f911d99aae9da096e7dcb2c9\" class=\"canvas-block canvas-block-permalink canvas-text-block canvas-text-block-permalink canvas-text-block--default \" data-context=\"{&quot;section&quot;:&quot;permalink&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;text_block&quot;}\">\n<p>David tells us by the time he stepped in to direct &#8220;Scary Movie 3,&#8221; all that drama had already gone down &#8230; so he has nothing to do with it all!<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<p><!--\/#cb-f978ab44f911d99aae9da096e7dcb2c9--><\/p>\n<section id=\"cb-c6cf8eb91495c1826be2e328e23f622e\" class=\"canvas-block canvas-block-permalink canvas-text-block canvas-text-block-permalink canvas-text-block--default canvas-block-is-last \" data-context=\"{&quot;section&quot;:&quot;permalink&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;text_block&quot;}\">\n<p>And with &#8220;Scary Movie 6&#8221; now on the way, David says he\u2019s checked out the trailer &#8212; and he\u2019s got some thoughts on the comedy franchise\u2019s latest chapter!<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<p><!--\/#cb-c6cf8eb91495c1826be2e328e23f622e--><\/p><\/div>\n<p> <br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2026\/03\/06\/david-zucker-comments-on-scary-movie-franchise\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Play video content TMZ.com &#8220;Scary Movie&#8221; director David Zucker is weighing in on Marlon Wayans&#8216; claim that Harvey and Bob Weinstein stole the franchise &#8230; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":342965,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[20622,20621,65,5273,353,20619,20624,20620,20623,20625],"class_list":["post-342962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-bob-weinstein","tag-david-zucker","tag-entertainment-culture","tag-harvey","tag-l-a","tag-marlon-wayans","tag-scary-movie","tag-studio-miramax","tag-wayans-family","tag-zucker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=342962"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342962\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":342964,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342962\/revisions\/342964"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/342965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}