{"id":149370,"date":"2022-12-06T03:58:00","date_gmt":"2022-12-06T03:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/ice-cube-wants-warner-bros-to-give-him-friday-franchise-rights-deadline\/"},"modified":"2022-12-06T03:58:00","modified_gmt":"2022-12-06T03:58:00","slug":"ice-cube-wants-warner-bros-to-give-him-friday-franchise-rights-deadline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/ice-cube-wants-warner-bros-to-give-him-friday-franchise-rights-deadline\/","title":{"rendered":"Ice Cube Wants Warner Bros. To Give Him ‘Friday’ Franchise Rights \u2013 Deadline"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\tIce Cube is fighting Warner Bros. for the Friday<\/em> franchise rights and he is not willing to pay for the movie he created.<\/p>\n

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\tIn a new interview on Mike Tyson’s Hotboxin’<\/em> podcast, the actor and rapper revealed Warner Bros. has been holding up the process of continuing the franchise despite several scripts being ready for a new Friday<\/em> installation.<\/p>\n

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\t\u201cI 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,\u201d he said. \u201cWe’d love to have it back. I think it’s going to be close to a time when we get it back. So, we’ll either wait for that time, or we’ll keep trying to convince them that they need to let us control the movie. It’s my movie, but they have distribution control.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\tIce Cube wrote all three films starting with Friday<\/em> in 1995 that he co-wrote with DJ Pooh. The rapper took full writing control over the next two installations: next friday<\/em> in 2000 and Friday After Next<\/em> in 2022. The fourth movie is tentatively titled last friday<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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\tWhen Tyson asked Ice Cube if he would buy the rights from Warner Bros. to have complete control over the franchise, the star shot down the idea.<\/p>\n

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\t\u201cI ain’t putting shit up for it. F\u2014 no,\u201d he said. \u201cThey need to give it to me, and they gon’ make money. I’m not about to pay for my own stuff, that’s stupid \u2026 They need to do the right thing, get it to us, let us turn it into more money, and make the fans happy \u2026 We can do a lot with it. \u201d<\/p>\n

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\tIce Cube said that Warner Bros. had already rejected two scripts for the fourth movie. He claimed executives said \u201cthe timing wasn’t right\u201d for the first script, while the second script has been stuck \u201cin development hell.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\tDeadline has reached out to Warner Bros. for comment and will update as soon as we hear back.<\/p>\n

\n\tWatch Ice Cube’s interview in the video posted below.<\/em><\/p>\n

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