I Was Pumped To Hear Ice Cube Is Coming Back For The Anaconda Remake. Here's Why He Returned

Ice Cube jumped at the chance to make a cameo in the Anaconda reboot

Five years ago, Sony’s Columbia Pictures announced that they were developing a reboot / reimagining of the 1997 “nature run amok” thriller Anaconda (watch it HERE), with the intention of “taking what was a simple and relatively cheap programmer with a B-movie concept and event-izing it in scope and budget.” Back in 2023, we heard that Tom Gormican would be writing and directing the film as his follow-up to the well-received action comedy The Unb…

Ice Cube Teases His Cameo Appearance in Brand New ‘Anaconda’ Comedy Movie

Almost 30 years after giant snake horror movie Anaconda scared up $136 million at the box office, the franchise returns this Christmas with a meta comedy reboot. Anaconda (2025) starring Paul Rudd and Jack Black slithers into theaters on December 25, and original Anaconda star Ice Cube has spilled the beans about a cameo. Rudd and Black play best friends who attempt to remake Anaconda and end up in their own real-life horror movie in Anaconda, a…

I Was Pumped To Hear Ice Cube Is Coming Back For The Anaconda Remake. Here's Why He Returned

In a new interview, Ice Cube explains why he jumped at the chance to have a cameo in the Anaconda remake, and it's anything but nostalgia.