Ice Cube’s comments about the challenges of remaking comedy classic Friday have been endorsed by co-star Chris Tucker.
Speaking to V-103 Atlanta about the future of the franchise, Tucker said the onus was on the movie studios.
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“It’s studios, and if they got they got to want to do it, and then it’s uh producers and all that stuff, so that that’s it’s a lot, it’s a lot that goes with it,” he said.
A breakout movie for Tucker, the actor and comedian said he was open to doing another movie if the stars aligned.
“I don’t know, it has to come back right because, like I said, at this point, you know, I’m only doing stuff that I know that I could do my best and I can have a lot of fun, got to be right,” he explained.
Ice Cube has previously detailed his efforts to get another Friday film made.
He said he wrote two scripts for a fourth Friday film but neither were well-received by the studio.
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“I’m trying to get it out of Warner Bros., they don’t believe in the culture man,” he said. “I had two scripts. I wrote one; it was the shit. They was like, ‘Yo, we don’t want Craig and Day-Day in jail, ’cause Craig and Day-Day went to jail for selling weed before it was legal!”
He continued: “Then after they rejected it they had all these fucking movies about going to jail: Orange Is The New Black …Get Hard. So then I wrote another script, and the script was really about … the youngsters in the hood having beef with the OG’s in the hood and Craig has to come back and squash that because Smokey’s son is the new Deebo and he’s wylin!
“They tripped on it man, they fucked around and then John Witherspoon passed. Then Deebo passed … they just fucked it up.”
There have been many calls for a new Friday film over the years which have been complicated by various cast members dying since the release of the last movie Friday After Next in 2002.
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Despite wanting to make a fourth film, Cube recently admitted he had to be persuaded to make a sequel in the first place.
