IceCube says Warner Bros. rejected two scripts for a fourth Friday movie, titled Last Friday: 'They just f'd it up.'
Warner Bros. said"bye, Felicia" to two different Friday sequel scripts, according to star and co-writer Ice Cube. The rapper and actor co-wrote all three Friday films — the 1995 cult-classic stoner comedy and its sequels, 2000's Next Friday and 2002's Friday After Next — playing recently-fired slacker Craig Jones opposite his drug dealer homeboy Smokey .
"I'm trying to get it out of Warner Bros. They don't believe in the culture, man," Cube said, explaining that the studio holds distribution rights to the franchise created by Cube and co-writer DJ Pooh. Cube wrote two Friday sequel scripts that were"the sh-t," he said, but both were rejected by Warner Bros."They were like, 'Yo, we don't want Craig and Day Day in jail,'" Cube said of Craig and his cousin Daymond"Day Day" Jones ."Because Craig and Day Day went to jail for selling weed before it was legal."
But Warner Bros."tripped on it," Cube said."They f—ed around, and then John Witherspoon [who played Craig's father, Willie Jones] passed, [Lister Jr.] passed, [Ezal actor A.J. Johnson] passed. There's a lot of characters who were going to go back to the hood. They just f—ed it up."
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