They still let Ice Cube make films? Oh wait, it’s Fred Durst who’s probably going to get his directors pass revoked any day now, Cube still makes money at the box-office with his ungangster-like family fare.
The multi-hyphenate rapper/actor/filmmaker /etc. will star alongside rapper Young Jeezy in “Janky Promoters,” a comedy about shady hip-hop promoters in over their heads, Jeezy will obviously play the main rapper. Cube will play one of the promoters.
Cube is not only acting, he wrote the film for Dimension Films which will also star Mike Epps and Terry Crews. It’s Cube’s first screenplay since the lodestone cinema classic, “Friday After Next,” and the director of that film, Marcus Raboy will helm the project which has already started shooting.
“This feels a lot like ‘Uptown Saturday Night‘ to me, a caper film where you have these music promoters who are slightly shady but are good enough guys that you root for them,” Bob Weinstein told Variety in March. “This is going to be R-rated, and it appeals right to the core of Cube’s audience.”