It might be nearly 25 years later, but luckily for Ice Cube, there’s always another Friday around the corner.
The N.W.A. alum recently shared an update on the long-awaited fourth installment of the Friday franchise more than 20 years after the last sequel was released, as he develops a follow-up with Warner Bros.
“We’re working on it. We finally got some traction with Warner Bros,” Ice Cube told Flavor Flav on his SiriusXM show Flavor of the Week. “They have new leadership, my man Mike DeLuca, who used to be at New Line when I first started, when I first did the first Friday and Players Club and All About the Benjamins. Mike DeLuca was there.
“So, now he’s running Warner Bros. And him and my man Michael Gruber was like, ‘Yo, what the fuck is going on with Friday? Man, let’s get this shit back online,’” he added.
Ice Cube co-wrote the first Friday (1995) with DJ Pooh, starring in the comedy as 22-year-old slacker Craig Jones, who faces troubles in South Central Los Angeles when he and his best friend Smokey (Chris Tucker) become indebted to a local drug dealer.
The actor reprised his role for the sequels Next Friday (2000) and Friday After Next (2002). He was in talks with New Line for a fourth entry as far back as 2011, but Ice Cube called out the Warner Bros.-owned studio for dragging their feet on the sequel in 2022.
“You know, I was a little hot because they had took so long,” he told Flav. “John Witherspoon passed away, [Tommy ‘Tiny’ Lister Jr.] passed away, [Anthony ‘AJ’ Johnson] passed away. I’m like, ‘Man, we keep losing people, and y’all keep dicking around, not doing the movie the way it needed to be done.’
“They wanna do it, but the key is, it’s got to be done right or we shouldn’t fuck with it. So, they finally came to their senses, so hopefully we can get in the process of getting that movie made,” said Ice Cube.
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