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Rapper and actor Ice Cube has claimed that Hollywood executives have vetoed his plans to make another sequel to his 1995 film, Friday.

The buddy comedy, which the former NWA member co-wrote with producer and longtime collaborator DJ Pooh, starred Ice Cube alongside Chris Tucker in one of his breakout film roles, having previously come to notoriety as a performer on Def Comedy Jam.

The film spawned two sequels in 2000 and 2002, entitled Next Friday and Friday After Next, respectively. Ice Cube recently shared that he had plans to release a fourth film for the franchise before stating that producers immediately shut him down when he shared his ideas for the script.

Speaking to Cam Newton on the Funky Friday Podcast, he revealed that he had arranged a meeting with Toby Emmerich from the production studio New Line Cinema, who had produced the three original films in the series. “I know what it needs to be, and they don’t,” remarked the rapper, before saying that Emmerich “wouldn’t make the movie.”

“I was trying to get it made,” he continued. “I wrote a script [but] they was 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.’ 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.'”

It’s unclear as to when these alleged meetings took place, although his references to the aforementioned shows suggest this was not a recent interaction, and that his plans were shut down several years ago.

Among his plans for the film was the idea that he would get Tucker to reprise his role from the first film, having been absent from the second and third instalments and leaving Ice Cube in the leading role alongside Mike Epps.

The West Coast MC was adamant that the film had to be done through New Line due to the fact that they had done the originals, but the poor reception of the two sequels may be a contributing factor as to why they were reluctant to take on a fourth movie in the Friday series.

The rapper has appeared in a number of films as an actor since 1991, with some of his most celebrated appearances including Boyz n the Hood and 21 Jump Street.

Ice Cube released his latest album, Man Down, earlier in November, which was his first studio release in six years, suggesting that a return to writing another sequel to Friday is not his largest priority at the moment.