There are better ways to die than being crushed by a chandelier in a haunted mansion, or stabbed to death while high and watching TV. But such was the fate of Marlon Wayans in the 2000 film Scary Movie and Scary Movie 2, released the following year (yes, he died twice), both of which he also produced and co-wrote with brother Shawn (who gets impaled by a ghost in the latter). Don’t worry – the pair have been regenerated to co-write, produce and appear in Scary Movie 6, out next year.

Elsewhere, the Wayans brothers co-wrote and starred in 2004’s buddy cop movie White Chicks, donning prosthetics to, indeed, look like a couple of shallow socialite sisters whom the police suspect will get kidnapped. A sequel is on its way. They also starred in 2006’s Little Man, where Marlon Wayans plays a (C

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