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Dave Franco to play Vanilla Ice in biopic To the Extreme

January 6, 2019 by Gary Collinson

According to a report over at Production Weekly, The Disaster Artist’s Dave Franco is set to portray rapper Vanilla Ice in a feature film biopic entitled To the Extreme.

The film, which is named after Vanilla Ice’s 1990 major label studio debut album, is reportedly being scripted by Chris Goodwin and Phil Van, with James Franco attached to produce for Ramona Films and Endeavor Content.

Further details are scarce, but the production listing does include the following brief synopsis:

From a high school dropout selling used cars in Dallas to having the first hip-hop single to top the Billboard charts with Ice Ice Baby, a young Vanilla Ice struggles with stardom, extortion attempts, and selling out as he makes music history.

Are you excited about the prospect of a Vanilla Ice biopic starring Dave Franco? Let us know in the c omments below…

Filed Under: Gary Collinson, Movies, News Tagged With: Dave Franco, to the extreme, Vanilla Ice

About Gary Collinson

Gary Collinson is a film, TV and digital content producer and writer who is the Editor-in-Chief of the pop culture website Flickering Myth and producer of the gothic horror feature 'The Baby in the Basket' and suspense thriller 'Death Among the Pines'.

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