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Though it’s solely Hump Day, Ice Dice is getting audiences prepared for the weekend as he returns to the function that began all of it.
The Grammy winner has inked a cope with Warner Bros. and New Line Cinema to write down and reprise his function as Craig Jones in Final Friday, the fourth entry in his comedy Friday (1995), Subsequent Friday (2000) and Friday After Subsequent (2002).
New Line CCO Richard Brener revealed the information in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter after he “closed a deal” with the star, who beforehand teased that the sequel had “lastly received some traction” in June 2024.
“They’ve new management, my man Mike DeLuca, who was at New Line after I first began, after I first did the primary Friday and Gamers Membership and All Concerning the Benjamins. Mike DeLuca was there,” he defined on the time.
“So, now he’s working Warner Bros,” added Ice Dice. “And him and my man Michael Gruber was like, ‘Yo, what the fuck is occurring with Friday? Man, let’s get this shit again on-line.’”
Ice Dice and Chris Tucker in ‘Friday’ (1995)
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 greatest pal Smokey (Chris Tucker) turn out to be indebted to an area drug seller.
The actor reprised his function 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.
“You realize, I used to be just a little sizzling as a result of that they had took so lengthy,” he mentioned in June. “John Witherspoon handed away, [Tommy ‘Tiny’ Lister Jr.] handed away, [Anthony ‘AJ’ Johnson] handed away. I’m like, ‘Man, we maintain dropping folks, and y’all maintain dicking round, not doing the film the way in which it wanted to be achieved.’
“They wanna do it, however the bottom line is, it’s received to be achieved proper or we shouldn’t fuck with it. So, they lastly got here to their senses, so hopefully we will get within the strategy of getting that film made,” mentioned Ice Dice.
