Dave Franco will play rapper Vanilla Ice in an upcoming biopic titled To the Extreme. Rumors about the project surfaced last year, but Franco has now officially confirmed the news, noting that he has been talking to the rapper quite a bit on the phone. Vanilla Ice, whose real name is Rob Van Winkle, shot to mainstream success with his 1990 debut album To the Extreme, fueled by the massively popular hit single "Ice Ice Baby."

In a new interview, Dave Franco revealed that To the Extreme is happening. "We have been in development for a while but we are inching closer and closer to preproduction," the actor said. The movie will tell Vanilla Ice's story from a high school dropout selling cars in Dallas to having the first hip-hop single to top the Billboard charts with "Ice Ice Baby." Young Vanilla Ice struggles with stardom, extortion attempts, and selling out...