Mike Epps Confirms Role In Ice Cube’s New ‘Friday’ Movie

Mike Epps has confirmed that he will be appearing in the long-awaited fourth installment of Ice Cube‘s Friday film franchise – and he hopes that Chris Tucker will join them as well.

Appearing on The Breakfast Club in a new interview on Tuesday (March 4), the legendary comedian, who played Day Day in the second and third installments of the film, revealed that the deal is done.

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“Cube called me the other day and said, ‘We just finished the deal.’ So we doing Last Friday,” he confirmed. “[…] I haven’t seen the script but I’m pretty sure it’s good. And we gonna bring in the new comics. We gonna bring the DC Young Flys and all of them in with the OGs and it’s gonna be a good ass time.”

He continued: “Hopefully we can get Chris Tucker in it. We need to get Chris Tucker in that because people still love Chris Tucker. He’s still Smokey. He laid it down. He positioned me to do it. Chris, if you listening: we need ya, baby boy. Come on back!”

Appearing on Gillie Da Kid and Wallo‘s Million Dollaz Worth of Game podcast back in October, Ice Cube teased new details about the next Friday movie.

“It’s coming back. We gonna do it. We gonna make it dope, make it funny, bring it up to date, introduce new characters, bring back old characters, create the feeling the movie gives you.”

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Cube continued: “People love Friday because everyone experienced it. People love Friday because everyone’s lived Friday. Everyone has lived a thousand Fridays.”

Cube’s comments built on his earlier announcement that he was finally getting the go ahead from Warner Bros. to make another sequel to the comedy franchise.

“We finally got some traction with Warner Bros.,” he said in an interview with Flavor Flav in June. “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.”

“It was like, ‘Yo, what the fuck is going on with Friday? Man, let’s get this back online,’” he continued. “And I was a little hot ’cause they had took so long because John Witherspoon passed away. Tiny passed away. A.J. Johnson passed away.

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“Like, man, we keep losing people and y’all keep dicking around not doing the movie the way it need to be done. They want to do it, but the key is it gotta be done, or we shouldn’t fuck with it. So they finally came to their senses.”