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Ice Cube Shares That He’s Trying To Get His ‘Friday’ Franchise Out Of Warner Bros.–Says They Rejected Two Of His Scripts For Another Potential Film

<p>Next month will make it 20 years since the release of &&num;8220&semi;Friday After Next&comma;&&num;8221&semi; which was the last film to release under <strong><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;dev&period;theshaderoom&period;com&sol;ice-cube-calls-out-warner-bros-for-allegedly-refusing-to-make-more-friday-sequels&sol;" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener">Ice Cube<&sol;a><&sol;strong>&&num;8216&semi;s &&num;8220&semi;<em>Friday<&sol;em>&&num;8221&semi; franchise&period; For years fans have been waiting for the release of the next film&comma; however&comma; there has been some back and forth behind the scenes that have prevented that from happening&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Recently&comma; Ice Cube appeared on a special edition of the <em><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;youtube&period;com&sol;watch&quest;v&equals;OOvRBuAODpE&amp&semi;t&equals;202s" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener">Drink Champs<&sol;a><&sol;em> podcast&comma; which took place at LL Cool J&&num;8217&semi;s <em>Rock The Bells<&sol;em> festival&period; When asked about the release of the next &&num;8220&semi;Friday&&num;8221&semi; film&comma; Ice Cube shared that he&&num;8217&semi;s trying to get the franchise from up under Warner Bros&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>He said&comma; &&num;8220&semi;I&&num;8217&semi;m tryna get it out of Warner Bros&period; they don&&num;8217&semi;t believe in the culture man&period;&&num;8221&semi; He continued to explain that Warner Bros&period; has the right to distribute any of the sequels&period;  Although some folks have been encouraging him to name the next film something else other than &&num;8220&semi;Friday&comma;&&num;8221&semi; he explained that once he takes the characters&&num;8217&semi; names&comma; it automatically becomes the property of &&num;8220&semi;Friday&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Cube also shared that he wrote two different scripts for a potential sequel&comma; but Warner Bros&period; rejected it&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>As the process to get another &&num;8220&semi;Friday&comma;&&num;8221&semi; film prolongs&comma; well-known characters from the franchise have passed on in real life&comma; making it more difficult&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>As previously reported&comma; John Witherspoon&comma; who played Cube&&num;8217&semi;s father in the films passed away in 2019&period; Tommy Lister Jr&period;&comma; who played Deebo passed away in 2020&comma; and A&period;J&period; Johnson passed away in 2021&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><amp-youtube data-videoid&equals;"OOvRBuAODpE" layout&equals;"responsive" width&equals;"1000" height&equals;"563" dock&equals;"&num;dock-slot"><&sol;amp-youtube><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>They also addressed if Chris Tucker has committed to starring in another film&comma; to which Cube said Chris did voice to him his commitment to star in another film&period; However&comma; Chris has said to other people he would star in another film&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Back in 2021&comma; Ice Cube took to social media to call out Warner Bros&period; 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