Harvey Weinstein was once one of the most powerful and influential figures in Hollywood. He held immense sway over the lives and careers of actors and other people in the filmmaking business. However, his crimes eventually caught up to him, and now he’s serving a multi-decade prison sentence.
Among those wronged by the convicted felon were the Wayans Brothers, famous scriptwriters of the Scary Movie franchise. He was reportedly very rude and disrespectful to them, making their lives a living hell. Despite this, the Wayans brothers helped him earn an immense fortune with the first two parts of the franchise. Weinstein and his brother Bob Weinstein were notoriously bad toward the scriptwriters of Scary Movie.
Marlon Wayans Reveals Harvey Weinstein Fired Him From Scary Movie Franchise
Harvey Weinstein had exploited and s*xually abused several women in the industry before several of his victims detailed their sobering and heartbreaking s*xual harassment incidents and raised their voices against him. According to reports, many A-list actresses, including Gwyneth Paltrow, Rose McGowan, Ashley Judd, and Angelina Jolie, accused Weinstein that he harassed them early in their careers.
In October 2017, following s*xual abuse allegations that go back to the late 1970s, he was booted from his company and ousted from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. All this gave him a horrible reputation in Hollywood and made him of the most hated and despised figures in LA.
The former producer and his brother, Bob Weinstein, co-founded the entertainment company Miramax, under which they helmed and delivered numerous blockbuster projects. In 2020 on the occasion of the Scary Movie franchise’s 20th anniversary, the co-writer of the commercially hit slasher film series Marlon Wayans made shocking bombshell revelations against the producer.
He claimed Weinstein had cleverly booted him and his brothers out of their own franchise after the first two movies’ major success. Scary Movie film series was produced and distributed under his former company Dimension Films.
The Wayans Brothers’ Claims Working With Harvey Weinstein Was A Horrible Experience
The original writers of the Scary Movie franchise, the Wayans brothers, revealed that working with Harvey Weinstein and his brother Bob Weinstein on Scary Movie film series projects was a horrible experience. In a brutally honest interview with Variety, they spoke about how the former Hollywood producer booted them out of their franchise after letting them work in the first two installments, Scary Movie and Scary Movie 2. Marlon Wayans told the outlet,
“[The Weinstein’s are] not the best or the kindest people to be in business with. They’re very much an evil regime, I guess. They do what they want to do how they do it — and it can be rude and quite disrespectful. We couldn’t come to terms on the deal. It’s like, ‘If you don’t want to pay for the jokes, have somebody else do it.’”
The American scriptwriter further recalls that Harvey Weinstein hired other writers for the Scary Movie 3, which resulted in him and his brothers firing from the franchise. He explained,
“We read on Christmas Eve that they were going with someone else for [‘Scary Movie 3’]. We probably could have sued or whatever, but part of us was like, ‘All you can do is allow us to create something new.’ I could write a book on that whole thing, honestly. They definitely still owe us money, lots of money. What they did was really bad business.”
The first two films of the Scary Movie franchise: Scary Movie and Scary Movie 2, written by the Wayans brothers, became commercially hit projects at the time of their release, and each film grossed millions of dollars at the global box office.
Source: Variety
