Ice Cube Reveals Why the Next ‘Friday’ Film Hasn’t Been Released Yet – Billboard

It’s been nearly 20 years since the debut of Ice Cube’s Friday After Next, the third movie launched beneath the “No Vaseline” rapper’s Friday franchise. As a outcome, there was main hypothesis on when the subsequent film might be launched, and through an episode of the Drink Champs podcast at L.L. Cool J’s Rock The Bells competition, Cube shares the cause behind the hold-up.

“I’m tryna get it out of Warner Bros. They don’t believe in the culture, man,” Ice Cube stated to the podcast hosts, N.O.R.E. & D.J. E.F.N.

The 53-year-old Los Angeles native additionally revealed that Warner Bros. has distribution rights to the Friday movies. “Once I take the character’s names, it becomes a property of Friday,” Cube added about individuals asking him to probably change the movie’s identify. “It’s useless. They just need to come off that s—!”

Cube famous that Warner Bros. rejected two of his scripts for the film. The first script included the characters Craig (Ice Cube) and Da Da (Mike Epps) going to jail for promoting marijuana.

“The s— is funny,” Ice Cube stated. “After they rejected it, they had all these movies about going to jail. So I was like, ‘Man, see, y’all f— me up.’ The other script was about the youngsters in the hood having beef with the OGs, and Craig has to come back and squash that. Smokey’s [Chris Tucker’s] son is the new Deebo [Tommy Lister Jr.], and he’s wilding.”

Cube added that Warner Bros’ “tripped on it,” along with speaking about a few of Friday’s distinguished characters passing away, together with John Witherspoon, who performed Cube’s father in the movies, Lister, who performed Deebo, and A.J. Johnson, who performed Ezal.

When requested if Tucker would star in one other movie, Cube stated the comic and actor hasn’t expressed full curiosity in doing one other Friday. “Chris is slippy,” stated Cube. “But me and Chris is cool.”

As far as Cube’s different notable initiatives like the 2002 All About The Benjamins film and his 1998 hit movie The Players Club, Cube stated it’s tied up on account of Warner Bros. “Once again, another Warner Bros’ f– up,” Cube concluded.