While Disney hasn’t always been the home of many Hip Hop related projects, the studio is working to release Chrome and Paint, a new film project by Ice Cube. The flick will center around car culture, as the title suggests and it will be co-written, co-directed and co-produced by Cube, who will also make an appearance in the movie.
Matt Alvarez, Cube’s partner in CubeVision, will co-direct and co-produce the film. Eva Vives has signed off to write the film. Vives is best known for her 2002 film, Raising Victor Vargas.
The film, based on a 2006 Cube song by the same name, was meant to be a gritty picture but Disney’s affiliation has somewhat changed things. While the film may not be getting the R-rated treatment anymore, it will still be about car culture. According to Hollywood Reporter, the film will be about a young man who loses his father and then begins to rebuild a car that belonged to him. Cube is said to star in the film as a family friend who helps.
Cube also has his sights set on television projects as news recently hit that he would be producing a new television series starring Bow Wow. In a recent interview with AllHipHop.com, Bow explained that the deal is still in its early stages but added that Jermaine Dupri may also be involved.
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“I just spoke with JD yesterday,” Bow noted. “He is actually about to do the music for the TV show sitcom that I am doing with Ice Cube.”
“I partnered with Ice Cube and he is producing my sitcom. I told JD when Will [Smith] had his own show [“The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air”], Quincy Jones did all the music so it’s only right that he does mine. So I got him doing all the scores to the TV show. I speak to JD daily.”
Bow Wow, who has worked with Cube in the past on more than one project, will star in Madea’s Big Happy Family, a film that is set to be released later this month.
