It’s been 12 years since we obtained the final “Friday” film with the Christmas-set “Friday After Subsequent,” however Ice Dice — star, author, and producer of the favored movie collection — isn’t giving up hope on not less than another installment.
Talking with Taste Flav for his SirusXM present “Taste of the Week,” Dice even introduced {that a} fourth movie might lastly be in improvement.
“We’re engaged on it. We lastly obtained some traction with Warner Bros.,” Dice mentioned. “They’ve new management, my man Mike De Luca, who was once at New Line after I first began, after I first did the primary ‘Friday’ and ‘Gamers Membership’ and ‘All Concerning the Benjamins.’ Mike De Luca was there. So, now he’s working Warner Bros. And him and my man Michael Gruber was like, ‘Yo, what the fuck is occurring with ‘Friday’? Man, let’s get this shit again on-line.’”
In response to Gruber’s feedback, Dice mentioned, “I used to be a little bit sizzling as a result of they’d took so lengthy. You already know, John Witherspoon handed away, Tiny [Tommy Lister. Jr.] handed away, A.J. Johnson handed away. So I’m like, man, we maintain dropping folks and y’all maintain dickin’ round, not doing the film the best way it should be executed. They need to do it, however the hot button is, it obtained to be executed proper or we shouldn’t fuck with it.”
IndieWire reached out to Warner Bros. for touch upon the event of a fourth “Friday” movie.
Dice has been open about his struggles with Warner Bros. previously, in addition to different trade points. Dice advised The Wall Road Journal in 2021 that he’d been in improvement on “Final Friday,” the fourth movie within the collection, for a decade, however the studio saved delaying the venture. On the time, Dice and his legal professionals had wished WB to give up their rights over the “Friday” franchise, pointing at discrimination as one of many causes behind the studio’s refusal to make the movie.
In accordance with WSJ: “The potential of discrimination has additionally emerged as a flashpoint within the conversations. In a single letter, Ice Dice’s consultant wrote that motion pictures he has executed for the studio ‘are habitually underfunded compared with tasks that includes white casts and inventive groups.’ The correspondence factors to different Ice Dice movies he says weren’t effectively supported.”
A spokesperson for Warner Bros. mentioned on the time that any discrimination complaints are “grounded in a libelous set of figuring out falsehoods,” including, “We strongly disagree with any claims of discriminatory therapy, and stand by our ongoing and confirmed dedication to help numerous voices and storytellers and can proceed to take action as we transfer ahead.”
Fortunately, it appears Dice and Warner Bros. are on higher phrases with each other and able to get to work. Let’s hope we received’t have to attend too many extra Fridays for the subsequent installment.