Last Friday just got a major filming update.

In a new interview with Entertainment Tonight on Friday, Mike Epps and Ice Cube not only revealed that the fourth film in the Friday franchise is on the way, but they also shared an update on whether Chris Tucker, who led the original comedy alongside Ice Cube, will be reprising his role of Smokey. Speaking to ET‘s Kevin Frazier, Ice Cube, who famously portrayed the role of Craig Jones, and Epps, who joined the Friday saga as Day-Day Jones on Next Friday and its sequel, Friday After Next, told the outlet that Last Friday is “going down.”

“It’s going down, it ain’t going up,” the “It Was A Good Day” rapper confirmed. When asked about Tucker’s participation, Epps said they’ve been in touch with the comedian.

Mike Epps: We’ve been talking to him, and he wants to come back.

“He’s one of the best,” Ice Cube added. “I think he ‘gon do it.”

Tucker, whose career skyrocketed after the film, was almost passed over for the part, with Cube revealing that In Living Color alum Tommy Davidson and other comedians of the early ’90s were originally in consideration for the role of Smokey.

Ice Cube: They wanted me to look at Tommy Davidson; they wanted me to look at some of the hot comedians of today. And I was like, “I want a fresh, new face.”

Friday helped launch the careers of several big comedians, including the late Bernie Mac, Katt Williams, and more, with Epps crediting the film for giving him his start.

Mike Epps: This movie broke so many of us as comedians. You come through the Friday university, you guaranteed to have a great career. Me, Katt Williams, Bernie Mac, Chris Tucker, Faizon Love, Terry Crews.

While the pair stayed relatively mum on the plot line for the franchise’s fourth installment, Last Friday will follow the events of sequels Next Friday and Friday After Next, with a focus on the gentrification of South Central Los Angeles. A release date has not yet been announced, but shooting is expected to start by the end of the year.

The update comes more than a year after Ice Cube, who starred in all three Friday films, reached a deal with New Line and Warner Bros to develop the film. Following a rights dispute with Warner Bros. in 2022, in 2024, Cube revealed that the long-awaited fourth Friday entry received some traction after a change of leadership at the studios. The NWA rapper previously rejected the idea of buying the rights back from the studios and was set on a deal where the studios would give him back the rights to make a fourth movie. It wasn’t until last year, however, that a deal was brokered, and the film got the official green light.

1995’s Friday follows a pair of unemployed friends, Craig and Smokey, living in South Central L.A. Chaos ensues after they accidentally smoke their drug supplier’s stash. The pair is given until 10:00 p.m. to scrap together a $200 debt, with just about everything getting in their way in the process, including a neighborhood bully, familial pressure, and some poorly-timed relationship drama. The film debuted as a sort of sleeper before morphing into a cult classic and cementing itself in pop culture history with lines like, “Bye, Felicia,” still a part of today’s lexicon. As for Tucker’s involvement, that remains to be seen, with Last Friday potentially marking his return to the franchise, and the first film in the Friday saga in over 20 years.