Ice Dice Says ‘Friday’ Sequel Has “Traction” At Warner Bros.
It is perhaps almost 25 years later, however fortunately for Ice Dice, there’s at all times one other Friday across the nook.
The N.W.A. alum not too long ago shared an replace on the long-awaited fourth installment of the Friday franchise greater than 20 years after the final sequel was launched, as he develops a follow-up with Warner Bros.
“We’re engaged on it. We lastly received some traction with Warner Bros,” Ice Dice instructed Taste Flav on his SiriusXM present Taste of the Week. “They’ve new management, my man Mike DeLuca, who was once at New Line once I first began, once I first did the primary Friday and Gamers Membership and All Concerning the Benjamins. Mike DeLuca was there.
“So, now he’s working Warner Bros. And him and my man Michael Gruber was like, ‘Yo, what the fuck is happening with Friday? Man, let’s get this shit again on-line,’” he added.
Ice Dice co-wrote the primary Friday (1995) with DJ Pooh, starring within the comedy as 22-year-old slacker Craig Jones, who faces troubles in South Central Los Angeles when he and his finest good friend Smokey (Chris Tucker) turn into indebted to an area drug vendor.
Ice Dice backstage throughout KENZO x H&M launch occasion on October 19, 2016 in New York Metropolis. (Nicholas Hunt/Getty Photos for H&M)
The actor reprised his position for the sequels Subsequent Friday (2000) and Friday After Subsequent (2002). He was in talks with New Line for a fourth entry way back to 2011, however Ice Dice referred to as out the Warner Bros.-owned studio for dragging their toes on the sequel in 2022.
“, I used to be just a little sizzling as a result of that they had took so lengthy,” he instructed Flav. “John Witherspoon handed away, [Tommy ‘Tiny’ Lister Jr.] handed away, [Anthony ‘AJ’ Johnson] handed away. I’m like, ‘Man, we preserve dropping individuals, and y’all preserve dicking round, not doing the film the way in which it wanted to be finished.’
“They wanna do it, however the hot button is, it’s received to be finished proper or we shouldn’t fuck with it. So, they lastly got here to their senses, so hopefully we are able to get within the strategy of getting that film made,” mentioned Ice Dice.