Ice Cube needs Warner Bros. handy over ‘Friday’ rights

Ice Cube is thru enjoying video games with Warner Bros., not less than with regards to the Friday franchise. Ice Cube and DJ Pooh wrote the primary installment of Friday, which was launched in 1995. At the identical time, the opposite two films, Next Friday (2000) and 2002’s Friday After Next, had been written solely by Ice Cube. 

On Dec. 2, the legendary rapper revealed an inventory of calls for he needs from the manufacturing firm throughout a latest interview on Mike Tyson’s podcast Hotboxin with Mike Tyson. This contains giving him the Friday franchise’s authorized rights and to cease delaying the movie’s fourth installment, allegedly titled Last Friday.

When visitor co-host and former basketball participant Matt Barnes requested Ice Cube if followers would ever get to see Last Friday, the “It Was a Good Day” emcee stated, on the 37:01 mark, he’s not sure due to how Warner Brothers studio is appearing in direction of him and the challenge. 

“I don’t know. Warner Brothers is weird right now. I don’t know what they’re doing, they don’t know what they’re doing. We’d love to have it back. I think it’s going to be close to a time when we get it back. So, we’ll either wait for that time, or we’ll keep trying to convince them that they need to let us control the movie. It’s my movie, but they have distribution control.”

Immediately following Ice Cube’s response, Tyson steered that he buys again the franchise, to which the 53-year-old quipped, 

“I ain’t putting s–t up for it. F— no.They need to give it to me, and they gon’ make money. I’m not about to pay for my own stuff, that’s stupid … They need to do the right thing, get it to us, let us turn it into more money, and make the fans happy … We can do a lot with it.”

Towards the tip of the dialog, Ice Cube revealed that he had written two scripts, one earlier than and one after the passing of Friday stars John Witherspoon and Tommy Lister Jr. however Warner Brothers studio continued to offer him the runaround. Witherspoon performed Pops, Ice Cube’s father, within the films. Lister portrayed the function of the neighborhood bully Debo. Witherspoon died in 2019, whereas Lister handed away the next 12 months. 

Since then, no further particulars have been launched presently.