Ice Cube Officially Bringing LAST FRIDAY to Life at Warner Bros. and New Line Cinema
After years of hoping, teasing, and hitting creative roadblocks, Ice Cube has finally locked in a deal to write and star in a new Friday movie, Last Friday, with Warner Bros. and New Line Cinema. It’s the fourth film in the classic comedy series and the first one in over two decades.
Fans have been waiting since 2002’s Friday After Next to see Cube return to South Central for one more chaotic day off. Now, with studio deals in place and creative wheels turning, that long-awaited final chapter is actually happening.
The news first dropped at The Hollywood Reporter, with New Line president and CCO Richard Brener confirming the deal.
Ice Cube’s been very vocal about wanting to make Last Friday, but it wasn’t until Warner Bros. underwent a leadership shake-up that things started moving forward.
During a June 2024 interview on Flavor Flav’s SiriusXM show Flavor of the Week, Cube hinted that progress was being made: Ice Cube said at the time:
“We’re working on it. We finally got some traction with Warner Bros. They have new leadership, my man Mike De Luca, 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 De Luca was there…So, now he’s running Warner Bros. And him and my man Michael Gruber was like, ‘Yo, what the f*ck is going on with Friday? Man, let’s get this shit back online.'”
Now De Luca and Pamela Abdy are heading up Warner Bros.’ film division, and it looks like that history between Cube and De Luca helped get Last Friday off the ground.
Cube has been the consistent thread throughout the series starring in all three films, co-writing the original with DJ Pooh, and penning the sequels himself.
It’ll be interesting and fun to see what this next chapter of the story will entail after all these years.