Ice Cube Says New ‘Friday’ Has ‘Traction’ With Warner
Ice Dice has been vocal about his dispute with Warner Bros. in excess of the ownership of his Friday film franchise, and the West Coastline icon has now provided an update on its extended term.
In the course of an interview on Sirius XM’s Taste Of The 7 days that aired on Monday (June 17), he revealed that the collection could be introduced once more to life-style right away soon after extra than two decades of inactivity.
“We lastly received some traction with Warner Bros.,” he told host Taste Flav. “They have new leadership. My man Mike DeLuca, who utilized to be at New Line when I to start with started out, when I 1st did the to start with Friday and Gamers Club and All About the Benjamins. Mike DeLuca was there, so now he’s functioning Warner Bros.”
Furthermore, the N.W.A alum also shared a recap of his talks with the studio.
“It was like, ‘Yo, what the fuck is likely on with Friday? Male, let’s get this again on the web,’” he continued. “And I was a little very hot ’cause they had took so very long mainly because John Witherspoon handed away. Tiny handed away. A.J. Johnson handed absent. Like, male, we preserve losing folks and y’all hold dicking all-around not undertaking the movie the way it need to be performed. They want to do it, but the essential is it gotta be finished, or we should not fuck with it. So they ultimately came to their senses.”
So drastically, the trilogy comprises Friday (1995), Upcoming Friday (2000) and Friday Soon soon after Up coming (2002). Past yr, Dice exposed that Warner Bros. owns not only the determine of the franchise he produced but also the names of its people today.
“You gotta use the similar [intellectual property],” he stated. “Can’t simply call it Saturday without having working with Craig and Working day-Day. So it’s the exact same point, definitely.”
Even even though vowing to retain on combating for its possession, the LA legend created it crystal clear that he’s not interested in finding into into a lawful battle with his prior studio partners. However, he did situation that he will retain generating an try to “convince Warner Bros. that they are erroneous.”
The 55-yr-prior rap veteran 1st verified that he was operating on a fourth installment in the sequence all through a late evening time job interview back in 2017. Nonetheless, that film has even so to materialize.
In the course of a reside taping of Drink Champs at the Rock The Bells competitors in 2022, the “No Vaseline” MC explained that he presented two scripts to the studio, each equally of which have been becoming rejected.
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“I’m trying to get it out of Warner Brothers, they do not imagine in the society person,” he stated at the time, sharing that they retain the distribution rights for any sequels transferring forward.
“I had two scripts. I wrote just one — it was the shit. They was like, ‘Yo, we never want Craig and Day-Day in jail ’cause Craig and Working day-Day went to jail for advertising weed before it was legal!
“Then, soon after they rejected it, they experienced all these fucking videos about going to jail: Orange Is The New Black …Get Tough. So then I wrote a different script, and the script was seriously about … the kids in the hood having beef with the OG’s in the hood, and Craig has to arrive again and squash that since Smokey’s son is the new Deebo and he’s wylin!”
He extra: “They tripped on it man, they fucked around and then John Witherspoon passed. Then Deebo handed … they just fucked it up.”
