Ice Cube Officially Reaches Deal For New 'Friday' Movie

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Ice Cube has officially been given the greenlight to proceed with a long-awaited new Friday movie.

The legendary rapper and actor has put to pen to paper on a deal with Warner Bros. and New Line Cinema to develop Last Friday, the first installment in the comedy series in more than 20 years.

New Line’s COO Richard Brenner confirmed the news in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, saying: “We are making another Friday. We just closed a deal with Ice Cube to write and star. It’s going to be called Last Friday.”

Aside from Ice Cube writing and starring in the sequel, no other details were announced, such as which actors will be reprising their roles in the cult series.

Cube has been teasing a fourth Friday film for quite a while and been publicly detailing his efforts to get the movie made.

Speaking last October on Million Dollaz Worth of Game, the N.W.A legend was optimistic that the movie would get made.

He said: “It’s coming back. We gonna do it. We gonna make it dope, make it funny, bring it up to date, introduce new characters, bring back old characters, create the feeling the movie gives you.”

Cube continued: “People love Friday because everyone experienced it. People love Friday because everyone’s lived Friday. Everyone has lived a thousand Fridays.”

“We finally got some traction with Warner Bros.,” he previously said in an interview with Flavor Flav a few months prior. “They have new leadership. My man Mike DeLuca, who used to be at New Line when I first started, when I first did the first Friday and Players Club and All About the Benjamins — Mike DeLuca was there, so now he’s running Warner Bros.”

“It was like, ‘Yo, what the fuck is going on with Friday? Man, let’s get this back online,’” he continued. “And I was a little hot ’cause they had took so long because John Witherspoon passed away. Tiny passed away. A.J. Johnson passed away.

“Like, man, we keep losing people and y’all keep dicking around not doing the movie the way it need to be done. They want to do it, but the key is it gotta be done, or we shouldn’t fuck with it. So they finally came to their senses.”