Ice Dice has been vocal about his dispute with Warner Bros. over the possession of his Friday movie franchise, and the West Coast icon has now supplied an replace on its future.
Throughout an interview on Sirius XM’s Taste Of The Week that aired on Monday (June 17), he revealed that the collection could possibly be introduced again to life after greater than 20 years of inactivity.
“We lastly received some traction with Warner Bros.,” he instructed host Taste Flav. “They’ve new management. My man Mike DeLuca, who was once at New Line after I first began, after I first did the primary Friday and Gamers Membership and All In regards to the Benjamins. Mike DeLuca was there, so now he’s working Warner Bros.”
Moreover, the N.W.A alum additionally shared a recap of his talks with the studio.
“It was like, ‘Yo, what the fuck is happening with Friday? Man, let’s get this again on-line,’” he continued. “And I used to be slightly sizzling ’trigger they’d took so lengthy as a result of John Witherspoon handed away. Tiny handed away. A.J. Johnson handed away. Like, man, we preserve shedding individuals and y’all preserve dicking round not doing the film the way in which it have to be performed. They need to do it, however the secret is it gotta be performed, or we shouldn’t fuck with it. In order that they lastly got here to their senses.”
To this point, the trilogy includes Friday (1995), Subsequent Friday (2000) and Friday After Subsequent (2002). Final yr, Dice revealed that Warner Bros. owns not solely the identify of the franchise he created but in addition the names of its characters.
“You gotta use the identical [intellectual property],” he acknowledged. “Can’t name it Saturday with out utilizing Craig and Day-Day. So it’s the identical factor, actually.”
Whereas vowing to proceed preventing for its possession, the LA legend made it clear that he’s not all in favour of getting into right into a authorized battle along with his former studio companions. Nonetheless, he did state that he’ll preserve attempting to “persuade Warner Bros. that they’re flawed.”
The 55-year-old rap veteran first confirmed that he was engaged on a fourth installment within the collection throughout a late evening interview again in 2017. Nonetheless, that movie has but to materialize.
Throughout a stay taping of Drink Champs on the Rock The Bells competition in 2022, the “No Vaseline” MC defined that he offered two scripts to the studio, each of which have been rejected.
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“I’m attempting to get it out of Warner Brothers, they don’t consider within the tradition man,” he mentioned on the time, sharing that they keep the distribution rights for any sequels shifting ahead.
“I had two scripts. I wrote one — it was the shit. They was like, ‘Yo, we don’t need Craig and Day-Day in jail ’trigger Craig and Day-Day went to jail for promoting weed earlier than it was authorized!
“Then, after they rejected it, they’d all these fucking films about going to jail: Orange Is The New Black …Get Exhausting. So then I wrote one other script, and the script was actually about … the kids within the hood having beef with the OG’s within the hood, and Craig has to return again and squash that as a result of Smokey’s son is the brand new Deebo and he’s wylin!”
He added: “They tripped on it man, they fucked round after which John Witherspoon handed. Then Deebo handed … they simply fucked it up.”
