Ice Cube Exits Sony Comedy ‘Oh Hell No’ After Declining COVID-19 Vaccine

[Loudninja]

Ice Cube has departed Sony's upcoming comedy, Oh Hell No, in which he would've co-starred with Jack Black, after declining a request from producers to get vaccinated, sources tell The Hollywood Reporter.

Sony had no comment. A personal representative for the star declined to comment. WME, his agency, declined to comment. Oh Hell No is being produced by Matt Tolmach and Black, who both did not offer a comment.



Ice Cube and Black partnered on the project in June. The Sony film was looking to shoot this winter in Hawaii with Kitao Sakurai, the filmmaker behind Netflix's breakout comedy Bad Trip, in the director's seat. Producers on Oh Hell No made the request that cast on the project would need to be vaccinated.

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The film is pushing back its production start. Black injured himself in June while filming a gag for the last episode of Conan but is still attached to the project. Sources tell THR the studio is looking to find a replacement for Ice Cube, who walked from a $9 million payday.

Throughout the pandemic, Ice Cube has promoted mask-wearing. In August, Bacone College in Oklahoma thanked the star and others for a donation of 2,000 face masks to use as personal protective equipment. In April 2020, amid COVID-19 lockdowns, he unveiled "Check Yo Self Before You Wreck Yo Self" branded T-shirts, featuring the star in a mask, in partnership with the manufacturer Black Out, with proceeds to benefit frontline health workers.

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Ice Cube Exits Sony Comedy ‘Oh Hell No’ After Declining COVID-19 Vaccine

The Sony film, which co-stars Jack Black, had been set to shoot this winter in Hawaii.

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[Deadly Cyclone]

Oh Hell No

 

[Grimminski]

Good rapper. Good actor? Oh hell no.

Fucking clown.

 

[Precious Tritium]

Wait Ice Cube was getting paid 9 million dollars for this?

Isn't Pattinson making 4 million for The Batman

What

 

[PlanetSmasher]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/ic...oducers-call-on-him-to-get-vaccinated.507264/

 

[Loudninja]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/ic...oducers-call-on-him-to-get-vaccinated.507264/

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Opps thanks!

 

[Special Puppy]

He's apparently a huge antisemite and conspiracy nut so it checks out that he'd be against the vax

 

[GoodFun_HaveLuck]

It is really frustrating to see people like Lebron James and Ice Cube try and make significant change for African Americans, and then see them be oppositional forces to Covid vaccines. This stuff is disproportionately killing black people, and a part of it is how popular people within the community position themselves on this.