Ice Dice is preventing Warner Bros. for the Friday franchise rights and he isn’t keen to pay for the film he created.
In a brand new interview on Mike Tyson’s Hotboxin’ podcast, the actor and rapper revealed Warner Bros. has been holding up the method of constant the franchise regardless of a number of scripts being prepared for a brand new Friday installment.
“I don’t know. Warner Brothers is bizarre proper now. I don’t know what they’re doing, they don’t know what they’re doing,” he mentioned. “We’d like to have it again. I feel it’s going to be near a time once we get it again. So, we’ll both look forward to that point, or we’ll maintain attempting to persuade them that they should allow us to management the film. It’s my film, however they’ve distribution management.”
Ice Dice wrote all three movies beginning with Friday in 1995 that he co-wrote with DJ Pooh. The rapper took full writing management over the subsequent two installments: Subsequent Friday in 2000 and Friday After Subsequent in 2022. The fourth film is tentatively titled Final Friday.
When Tyson requested Ice Dice if he would purchase the rights from Warner Bros. to have full management over the franchise, the star shot down the thought.
“I ain’t placing shit up for it. F— no,” he mentioned. “They should give it to me, and so they gon’ earn a living. I’m not about to pay for my very own stuff, that’s silly … They should do the precise factor, get it to us, allow us to flip it into more cash, and make the followers completely satisfied … We will do quite a bit with it.”
Ice Dice mentioned that Warner Bros. had already rejected two scripts for the fourth film. He claimed executives mentioned “the timing wasn’t proper” for the primary script, whereas the second script has been caught “in improvement hell.”
Deadline has reached out to Warner Bros. for remark and can replace as quickly as we hear again.
Watch Ice Dice’s interview within the video posted beneath.
