Who Won the Movie?
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- Chris Tucker is named immediately, the name coming twice in quick succession with 'come on, man' agreement that it is obvious; one host says it pains them that his career is not in the shape it should be.
- Next Friday and Friday After Next starred Mike Epps, and a Last Friday has been hoped for for years; original cast members say Tucker is why it has not happened, his pay scale rose, and in his defense he probably does not want to play a weed-smoking delinquent at forty, though the character could be evolved.
- A gritty reboot and 'Christopher Nolan's Friday' are joked about; the hosts watched Next Friday but not Friday After Next, and barely the animated series; Tucker has cryptically suggested interest in recent interviews now that his pay scale is down.
- Rush Hour 4 is also in the works with Tucker on the fence and Jackie Chan as the Ice Cube trying to get him there; the hosts would take Rush Hour 4 over Last Friday a thousand percent, since Chan and Tucker could reprise older versions, while Friday is quintessentially youthful and would be weird with 45-year-olds on the porch.
- Questions a sequel would raise, kids, still smoking, or flipping Smokey straight and Craig into the pothead, are floated, but what people want from sequels is an extension of the original, which would have to change too much to work, so leave Friday be; Rush Hour 4 should just avoid the mistakes of Lethal Weapon 4.
- At the top of the show, with no spoilers on who won, Tucker is said to dominate everyone's attention as soon as he appears on screen.
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