Ice Cube NewsIce Cube To Direct Chrome and Paint
by Wilson Morales
April 9, 2011
Disney has picked up Ice Cube’s latest project, ‘Chrome and Paint,’ a gritty car culture project.
THR reports that Cube will direct and produce with his CubeVision partner Matt Alvarez and is also co-writing the script with Eva Vives, who co-wrote the 2002 Latino drama ‘Raising Victor Vargas.’
‘Chrome and Paint’ is actually the name of a song from Cube’s 2006 album ‘Laugh Now, Cry Later’ and contains lyrics that wouldn’t get through the front gate of the Burban-based studio.
The Los Angeles native envisioned the film project, set in South Central LA, as a hardcore R-rated movie where young people die in drive-bys, but now that Disney will be its home, the grit factor will be toned down.
The story will be turned into a father-son story centering around a car. Paint will focus on a teen who is left fatherless and begins to rebuild a car that belonged to his father. Cube will play a friend of the father’s who helps. The process of remaking the car helps the two heal each other.
This will be Ice Cube’s first film as a director since his 1998 debut, ‘The Players Club.’ In 2010, Cube directed the solid 30 for 30 documentary ‘Straight Outta L.A.,’ which centers on the link between the L.A. Raiders and gangsta rap.
Cube just wrapped filming on the police drama ‘Rampart,’ and is currently shooting Garry Marshall’s ‘New Year’s Eve,’ which pairs him with Ludacris and Hilary Swank. He will also star in the remake of ’21 Jump Street’ with Channing Tatum and Jonah Hill.
