Lawrence Lamont is about to find out that a lot can go down between Thursday and Saturday.

Lamont, who made a splash last year with One of Them Days , has been tapped to direct Last Friday , the first installment of New Line’s buddy comedy movie franchise in 25 years.

Ice Cube , who co-created the movie series, is writing the script and producing, and will also star in the feature. Also producing are Bob Teitel and CubeVision’s Michael Gruber.

The first Friday was directed by F. Gary Gray and featured Cube and Chris Tucker as slacker Craig Jones and small-time drug dealer Smokey respectively as they faced increasing problems with jobs, girlfriends, exes, family, death threats, all in the streets of South Central Los Angeles. Cube wrote the script with DJ Pooh.

The movie was released in 1995, became a cult hit, and spawned sequels Next Friday , released in 2000, and Friday After Next , which came out in 2002.…