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Ice Cube Responds To Fake Story About “Friday” Prequel: “This Is Blasphemy”

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Ice Cube has been pretty vocal about his disdain towards Warner Bros for stalling the final installment of the Friday franchise. Now that John Witherspoon and Tommy Lister Jr. have passed, it is unsure whether Last Friday will come out or not.

Since Last Friday is stalled, Cube seems to not want any other adaptions of Friday to come about. He even responded to a fake story posted on Twitter claiming that a O’Shea Jackson Jr. directed Friday prequel starring Druski and Vince Staples was in the works and headed to HBO Max.

“This is blasphemy,” Cube tweeted in response to the false claim.

This isn’t the first time the Twitter page spread fake news about an upcoming project. O’shea Jackson Jr. actually fell for one of the fake tweets regarding him being cast in a Boyz N The Hood remake produced by 50 Cent.

According to a report, disagreements between Cube and Warner Bros. about the script stalled development on the fourth installment on the Friday franchise. According to a report by the Wall Street Journal, Warner Bros. executives “told him prison isn’t funny,” and that “they felt the fans of the franchise wanted to see the characters in their familiar settings instead of behind bars for much of the movie.”

Ice Cube’s lawyer then accused Warner Bros. of discrimination, something that was quickly refuted. “We strongly disagree with any claims of discriminatory treatment, and stand by our ongoing and proven commitment to support diverse voices and storytellers and will continue to do so as we move forward,” Warner Bros. wrote in regards to Cube’s lawyer’s claims.

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Ice Cube Is Reportedly At Odds With Warner Bros. Over A ‘Friday’ Sequel

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Ice Cube‘s Friday series is a classic, but the chances of getting another film in the series is apparently in doubt due to a dispute between the multi-hyphenate and the studio behind the series.

According to a Wall Street Journal story detailing the dispute, Ice Cube apparently wants Warners to surrender the rights to the Friday series as well as All About The Benjamins and The Players Club, two other films he made with the studio.

According to letters between the parties, Warner Bros. doesn’t intend to do this, instead blaming Ice Cube for dragging his feet on a new movie with the studio.

Warner Bros. replied, calling the demand “extortionate” and saying it won’t release rights to the valuable franchise or any other Ice Cube movies, according to the correspondence.

One letter from Ice Cube’s lawyer said the studio has been excessive in its feedback notes on the scripts Ice Cube wrote for the latest “Friday” and contends Warner Bros. has been a “poor steward” for the franchise. “These guys don’t get me, and I don’t get them,” Ice Cube said in an interview.

The report indicates that Cube’s other projects, such as the Big 3 basketball league, is distracting him from the next installment in the series, titled Last Friday. Meanwhile, the rapper and actor says potential discrimination in allocating resources is part of his issues with Warners.

In one letter, Ice Cube’s representative wrote that movies he has done for the studio “are habitually underfunded in comparison with projects featuring white casts and creative teams.” The correspondence points to other Ice Cube films he says weren’t well supported; it doesn’t offer specific comparisons to projects from other filmmakers.

Warner Bros. denies it has discriminated against Ice Cube or that it gave short shrift to any of his projects. In a letter sent in May to Ice Cube’s lawyer Bryan Freedman, the studio said the complaints are “grounded in a libelous set of knowing falsehoods.”

The disagreement between the two sides seems serious, and also doesn’t seem likely to be resolved anytime soon. Which means a sequel to Friday, which came out in 1995, isn’t on the horizon anytime soon. As the report noted, an agreement to make a new Friday movie was first signed in 2012. The story details some plot details the studio objected to, and the pushback that Cube gave about the film’s direction.

It’s all certainly been a long time coming, but fans are likely to have to wait even longer before any real progress is made on on Last Friday.

[via Wall Street Journal]

‘Friday’ Star Tommy Lister’s Real Cause Of Death Revealed

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Hollywood actor Tommy “Tiny” Lister passed away on Dec. 10, 2020, and initial rumors were that his death was related to COVID-19. While the Friday and Next Friday star was battling the virus, the medical examiner’s report shines a light on what really happened to the man known best as Deebo. Cause Of Death Revealed […]

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