According to Mike Epps, Last Friday, which will conclude the saga of Ice Cube's comedy franchise Friday, will be developed.
On Tuesday (March 4), the actor-comedian was a guest on Power 105.1 radio program The Breakfast Club, and confirmed that the fourth and final Friday is in motion.
"[Ice Cube] called me the other day. We just finished the deal," Epps said around the 31-minute mark of the video below, before giving the rapper-actor a shoutout. "That’s another brother that’s put so many brothers on, man. Man, this dude put so many... and don’t really get the props for it. Put me, Chris Tucker, Bernie Mac, I mean name 'em."
While Epps added that he hasn't seen the Last Friday script, he's "pretty sure it's good." "And we're gonna bring in the new comics," he added. "We're gonna put the DC Young Flys and all of them in with the OGs. It's going to be a good ass time."
Epps expressed that "hopefully" the Last Friday crew nabs Chris Tucker, who was Cube's first partner as Smokey in the inaugural buddy-comedy.
"People still love Chris Tucker, he's still Smokey," Epps said. "He laid it down, he positioned me to do it. So Chris, if you're listening, we need you, baby boy. Come on back."
While Cube signed off on Last Friday with Warner Bros. last year, Tucker has been repeatedly asked about rejoining the franchise, which he expressed being open to if the script was favorable.
"I don’t know, it has to come back right because, like I said, at this point, you know, I’m only doing stuff that I know that I could do my best and I can have a lot of fun, got to be right," Tucker said around the 17-minute mark of the video below.
At least one Last Friday script has been rejected, with Smokey and Day-Day (Epps) running a dispensary in jail before going to rehab.
"They were like, 'Ah, jail’s not funny. It’s too much time in jail. How can you make jail funny?' I’m like, ‘Man, y’all don’t know what the fuck y'all talking about,'" Cube said about the execs' response on an episode of podcast last November. "Then they come out with Orange Is The New Black, Let’s Go to Prison, all these movies about that. And I’m like, 'See? More Hollywood execs don’t know what the fuck they’re talking about.'"