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CUBE BRINGING ‘WELCOME BACK KOTTER’ TO BIG SCREEN: Rapper will star in and produce adaptation of 70s sitcom.
*Ice Cube as Mister Kot-taire? The rapper’s company, Cube Vision Productions, just inked a deal with Dimension Films to bring “Welcome Back, Kotter” to the big screen with the “Barbershop” star in the title role.
"There was no bigger fan of the original show than me, and I'm very excited to be able to put a new twist on it," said Cube, who will star in the remake as high school teacher Gabe Kotter, a slacker who returns to his inner-city alma mater to light a fire under the school’s apathetic students.
The original series ran from 1975-79 with John Travolta rising to superstardom as the clueless cutie Vinnie Barbarino, a member of a band of students in Kotter’s class nicknamed The Sweathogs. Other ‘hogs included the smooth-talking Freddie "Boom-Boom" Washington, played by Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs; the proud “Puerto Rican Jew” Juan Epstein (Robert Hegyes) and bonafide nerd Arnold Horshack (Ron Palillo).
No word whether any of the stars from the series will make cameos in the film. Production is likely to begin this fall following the completion of Cube’s next project, “Are We Done Yet,” a sequel to last year’s hit “Are We There Yet.” The sequel, also a remake loosely based on the Cary Grant film “Mr. Blandings Builds His Dreamhouse,” begins filming this June in Vancouver.
Cube’s next rap album, “Laugh Now, Cry Later,” is also due in June.
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