Ice Cube Confirmed to Write & Star in New ‘Friday’ Movie’

Last Friday is really happening, folks.

We’ve been covering updates about the film extensively since June of 2024 when Ice Cube told Flavor Flav that the movie was gaining momentum. “We’re working on it. We finally got some traction with Warner Bros.,” he said. “They have new leadership. My man Mike DeLuca — 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 DeLuca was there. So, now he’s running Warner Bros. And him and my man Michael Gruber was like, ‘Yo, what the f—k is going on with Friday? Man, let’s get this s—t back online.’”

Cube also told Million Dollaz Worth of Game about a rejected script idea where his character Craig and Mike Epps’ character Day-Day went to jail after beating up a kid after a flash mob bum-rushed their dispensary. While in jail, they run into Deebo and the Joker brothers from the first two films. They eventually make their way into a rehab center ran by Chris Tucker’s character Smokey.

Then in March, Mike Epps told The Breakfast Club that a fourth installment of the franchise was indeed happening, telling them that Cube called him and said “we just finished the deal.”

Now, there’s even more concrete confirmation from New Line Cinema boss Richard Brener, who sat down with The Hollywood Reporter and was asked straight up if the studio was making a new Friday movie and confirmed the title. “We are making another Friday,” he told the outlet. “We just closed a deal with Ice Cube to write and star. It’s going to be called Last Friday.”