Ice Cube fights Warner Bros. for the Friday franchise rights and he is not willing to pay for the movie he made.
In a new interview with Mike Tyson hotboxing Podcast, the actor and rapper revealed that Warner Bros. The process of continuing the franchise has been delayed, although several scripts are ready for a new one Friday Deposit.
“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,” he said. “We’d like it back. “We’ll get him back. So we’re waiting for at that time or we keep trying to convince them to give us control of the film. It’s my film, but they control the distribution.”
Ice Cube has written three films starting with Friday 1995, which he co-wrote with DJ Pooh. The rapper took full writing control over the next two episodes: Next Friday in 2000 and Friday to the next in 2022. The fourth film has a tentative title Last Friday.
When Tyson asked Ice Cube if he wanted the Warner Bros. wanted to buy to take full control of the franchise, the star shot down the idea.
“I don’t appreciate it. F…no,” he said. “You have to give it to me and they will make money. I’m not going to pay for my own stuff, that’s stupid… You have to do the right thing, bring it to us, let’s make more money out of it and make the fans happy… There’s a lot we can do with it. “
Ice Cube said that Warner Bros. already turned down two scripts for the fourth film. He claimed executives said “the timing wasn’t right” for the first script while the second script was “in development hell”.
Deadline has Warner Bros. for comments and will be updated once we have feedback.
Watch the interview with Ice Cube in the video below.
Writer: Armando Tinico
Source: Deadline
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