Critically decimated upon its 2004 release, Shawn & Marlon Wayans’ “White Chicks” was littered with the most politically incorrect jokes imaginable. And yet, it was —horrifically?— watchable —the same way Tommy Wiseau’s “The Room” or Ed Wood’s “Plan 9 From Out Of Space” are terribly executed pearls in cinematic history.
In past years, Wayans expressed his desire to make a “White Chicks 2,” but the potential sequel kept hitting snag after snag in development. Now, Marlon has “Scary Movie 6,” set for release this summer, and guesting on the Rap Attack Official podcast, he’s saying that if “Scary Movie 6” does well, then “White Chicks 2” will be the next film he shoots.
“[Fans always ask] ‘When are you doing the sequel?’ They love that movie,” he said. “And so, if Scary Movie 6” does well like we think it does, then we’ll be back real hard next with “White Chicks 2.”
“White Chicks” had Shawn and Marlon playing two FBI agents who go undercover by putting on “white face” and dressing up as token WASPY Tiffany and Brittany Wilson. The gals didn’t look white at all, but rather resembled female Michael Jacksons—the viewer had to suspend disbelief and simply accept that the people around Tiffany and Brittany, oblivious to the bad makeup, believed they were interacting with actual white women.
Terry Crews played the man who fell for one of the “chicks”—he warned one of them, swooningly, that “once you go black, you end up in a wheelchair.” He was the Osgood to Wayans’ Daphne.
It’s all played like “Some Like It Hot,” but without the sharp wit. Of course, it’s almost impossible to believe such a movie would be greenlit today. With blackface controversies swirling all around us, a “white face” movie is the last thing any producer would want to commit to. And maybe that’s the biggest miracle that came with “White Chicks”—that it actually exists and that someone out there believed it was a good idea to finance such a film, let alone an upcoming sequel.
Then again, a few years ago, “Everything Everywhere All At Once” co-director Daniel Scheinert had an even better idea. He told THR that his dream project would be to remake “White Chicks” as R-rated Oscar bait. Someone should remind Scheinert to make this movie.
