The New "Friday" Film Sets Its Director
Ice Cube will write and star in the revival, which received $11.4 million in California incentives and plans 40 filming days.
- Filmmaker Lawrence Lamont has been set to direct Last Friday, the newest installment of the Ice Cube-led Friday buddy comedy franchise at Warner Bros. Pictures and New Line Cinema.
- This production marks the first entry in the Friday buddy comedy series in nearly 25 years, following the 1995 original and sequels released in 2000 and 2002.
- Lamont most recently directed One of Them Days, the $14 million production starring Keke Palmer and SZA that grossed more than $51 million worldwide and earned him the African American Film Critics Association Breakthrough Director Award.
- New Line received approximately $11.4 million in California production tax credits for the project, which will film over a 40-day schedule with 43 cast members and 150 crew.
- With Ice Cube returning to write and star, the film will likely address gentrification, and producers remain optimistic that Chris Tucker will reprise his role as Smokey.
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