April 4, 2025
A serious studio exec has confirmed that Ice Dice’s “Final Friday” is on the way in which.
Ice Dice has formally acquired the inexperienced gentle from movie studios to create the ultimate installment within the Friday franchise.
New Line President and CCO Richard Brener made the announcement throughout an in-depth Q&A with The Hollywood Reporter. In response to Brener, Ice Dice has the help to jot down and star within the new movie, simply as he did within the earlier three installments.
“We’re making one other Friday,” Brener revealed. “We simply closed a cope with Ice Dice to jot down and star. It’s going to be referred to as Final Friday.”
Final Friday would be the fourth entry within the comedy collection and the primary in over 20 years, following Friday After Subsequent in 2002. The movie’s announcement comes lower than a yr after Ice Dice (actual title O’Shea Jackson) mentioned the extremely anticipated movie was within the works.
“We’re engaged on it. We lastly bought some traction with Warner Bros.,” Ice Dice mentioned on Taste Flav’s SiriusXM present Taste of the Week.
“They’ve new management, my man Mike De Luca, 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 De Luca was there…So, now he’s operating Warner Bros. And him and my man Michael Gruber was like, ‘Yo, what the fu*ok is occurring with “Friday”? Man, let’s get this sh*t again on-line.’”
In 2022, Ice Dice appeared on Mike Tyson’s Hotboxin‘ podcast, the place he defined the delay was being attributable to Warner Bros. not giving him the rights to his movie again.
“Warner Bros. is bizarre proper now,” Dice mentioned on the time. “I don’t know what they’re doing. They don’t know what they’re doing. We’d like to have it again. I feel it’s going be near a time once we get it again. So, we’ll both anticipate that point, or we’ll maintain making an attempt to persuade them that they should allow us to management the film. It’s my film, however they’ve distribution management.”
Ice Dice has starred in all three Friday movies—Friday (1995), Subsequent Friday (2000), and Friday After Subsequent (2002). He co-wrote the primary movie with DJ Pooh and had all three Friday films developed by New Line beneath De Luca’s management. Warner Bros. later acquired New Line, gaining management of the Friday franchise rights, resulting in the dispute over the movie rights.
With the deal now closed, followers are desperate to see how Ice Dice plans to wrap up his cult traditional franchise. The movies have featured stars like Chris Tucker, who performed Pookie in Friday; Mike Epps, who portrayed Day Day, Craig’s (Ice Dice) cousin, in Subsequent Friday and Friday After Subsequent; and Katt Williams, whose breakout position as Cash Mike grew to become iconic. Tommy Lister Jr. famously performed the infamous Deebo in Friday and Subsequent Friday, although he handed away in 2020 at 62.
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