Ice Cube has revealed he submitted two scripts for the fourth film in his stoner comedy franchise Friday, but that both were rejected by the studio.
Cube joined N.O.R.E. and DJ EFN as part of a live taping of Drink Champs during LL Cool J’s Rock The Bells weekend in August, and criticized Warner Brothers for not supporting the culture.
“I’m trying to get it out of Warner Brothers, they don’t believe in the culture man,” Cube said around the 29-minute mark, adding that the studio retains distribution rights for any sequels moving forward. “I had two scripts. I wrote one; it was the shit. They was like, ‘Yo, we don’t want Craig and Day-Day in jail, ’cause Craig and Day-Day went to jail for selling weed before it was legal!”
He continued: “Then after they rejected it they had all these fucking movies about going to jail: Orange Is The New Black … Get Hard. So then I wrote another script, and the script was really about … the youngsters in the hood having beef with the OG’s in the hood and Craig has to come back and squash that because Smokey’s son is the new Deebo and he’s wylin!
“They tripped on it man, they fucked around and then John Witherspoon passed. Then Deebo passed … they just fucked it up.”
LL sat down midway through Cube’s rant and agreed the series has to go on. “One thing about it is it’s an unbelievable franchise and it definitely needs to continue,” the Rock The Bells founder chimed in.
The first Friday film dropped to commercial acclaim in 1995, and Ice Cube followed it up with Next Friday and Friday After Next in 2000 and 2002, both of which found similar success.
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A fourth entry in the franchise has been rumored for a while now, tentatively titled Last Friday, but Cube has admitted numerous incidents, including all the aforementioned cast members passing away, have prevented him from finishing it.
“I really apologize to my friend for not getting the next Friday movie made,” he said during Witherspoon’s funeral in 2019. “It’s not my fault. Some dumbass people in Hollywood at New Line Cinema, if you wanna … you can email Toby Emmerich and Richard Brener if you feel like I feel. Yeah, you punks had two scripts and you didn’t wanna do them.
“That’s the real. We were tryin’ to make that movie for years and we couldn’t get it done. We got the other three and we got our memories.”
Lost too many folks man, probably best to just let it rest.
Facts too many people passed away: John Witherspoon, Tiny Zeus, Bernie Mac, A.J. Johnson, Michael Clarke Duncan, the white boy from Next Friday, the list goes on plus add to the fact that Ice Cube didn’t wanna pay Chris Tucker the amount of money he was supposed to have gotten for being the star of the first movie and that Chris Tucker said he didn’t want to b stereotyped into playing that role again which is y he chose to do all those Rush Hour movies with Jackie Chan
seems to me the dumm as is the one who sold distribution rights n doesnt own his own creation, that 1st one made a profit of over 97M yet he still breaks bread with these dev ils, can easily create a saturday and distribute himself
the first one made 20m, the whole franchise is around 97m profit. took 15 seconds to google. stop spreading bs.
ur rite it did 30M i was thinkin wayans with scary movie, either way u release no vaseline make 17+M on a 3M project still doin biz with devils when he dont need too, so scared of losing money n bein po again he sleeps with the enemy n follows their playbook of opm
I got a better idea. Since we making Captain America and The Little Mermaid black lets make a reboot of Friday with an all white cast. It will take place in a trailer park instead of the hood. Pete Davidson and Post Malone can play the lead roles. Let Kim Kardashian play the neighborhood hoe. Let Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson play Debo. Instead of 64 Impalas and hoopties it will be pick up trucks and Hellcats. Instead of 40 ounces it will be moonshine in Ball Mason jars. Instead of weed, let them get high on mushrooms. I think that might do as well as the original Friday for real !
Shit can actually work..cube can do a cameo or still retain a significant role
Not gonna lie, that would actually be hilarious lol.
Wanna know why they rejected the scripts? Because cube only made stinkers since friday after next and his new “kick ass” scripts were probably just stinkers too. And seriously, who wants to see cube as craig again? He was the weakest part of the movies and the best of the other cast is either dead or moved on from barber shop type garbage. Cant remember a single thing that cube did in the past 2 decades that wasnt generic dumpster juice trash… Him getting the pretty girl in the friday movies always gave the movies a science fiction vibe too. Let it rest, chump. You aint what you used to be. not even close….
The first Friday was a classic, the rest of the Friday’s were ass. Don’t blame Warner Bros homie, was probably a wack script
Can’t say I disagree with Warner bros. The last thing we need is two more black men in jail.
20 years too late
Well, first off, comedies don’t really make much money these days, hence why even the former A stars are “direct to streaming” releases. Comedies just don’t perform well a the box office, it’s a weird time. And second, whos to say the script is solid, aside from Cube? It might be, he had decent movies.
I THINK THIS TYPE OF QUALITY CONTROL IS GOOD AS THE COMING TO AMERICA SEQUEL WAS SUPER TRASH BC THESE STREAMING PLATFORMS LET GIVE CREATIVES WAY TOO MUCH FREEDOM.THE ONLY AND BIGGEST NEGATIVE IS THAT JOHN WITHERSPOON PASSED AWAY BETWEEN ALL THESE SETBACKS.
So just because warner bros passed on your 3rd grade scripts, they don’t care about black culture? Quit crying and pulling that fucking race card. We all know those scripts were garbage. Take responsibility black folks and just because something doesn’t go your way, doesn’t mean because of the color of your skin. You mf’rs are dumb as shit. Racism could be abolished and nowhere in sight and black people would still say the same shit.
Where did he mention race? And why are you generalizing black people?
Ice Cube is a great rapper and a terrible actor. And this page is run by na zis.
Do last friday and f~~~ the rest
do it~do it~do~it
They just hating cause they know its gonna be good
old. delusional. ass…