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Dave Franco is rumored to be playing iconic ’90s rapper Vanilla Ice in a new biopic titled “To the Extreme”.
A listing on the Production Weekly website states that the “Disaster Artist” star is attached to play the Dallas-based used car salesman turned music superstar (and “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II” player!) in a film to be produced by the actor’s brother James Franco.
Chris Goodwin and Phil Van’s screenplay for the film was featured on the 2018 Black list.
Said film will likely chronicle the rise of the South Dallas-born Highschool dropout who released his debut album, Hooked, in 1989 on Ichiban Records, before signing a contract with SBK Records, a record label of the EMI Group, which released a reformatted version of the album in 1990 under the title To the Extreme. That alum contained Ice’s best-known hits: “Ice Ice Baby” and a cover of “Play That Funky Music”. “Ice Ice Baby” was the first hip hop single to top the Billboard charts. In recent years, Ice has appeared in a number of Adam Sandler’s films, including “That’s My Boy”.
Franco, who cut his teeth on shows like “Scrubs” and “Greek” before making a name for himself in big-screen fare like “Neighbors” and “Now You See Me”, recently played Greg Sestero in brother Franco’s “The Disaster Artist”.
