Lethal Weapon 5 May Still Happen After All

Lethal Weapon 5

After antecedently stating the undertaking may not hap , manager Richard Donner has claimedLethal Weapon 5is still on during a recent interview . While the originalLethal Weaponwasn’t the first buddy cop flick , it soon come to define the genre . The alchemy between co - stars Danny Glover and Mel Gibson play a huge part in this , as did Shane Black ’s ( The predatory animal ) quotable screenplay and Donner ’s rich direction .

The success ofLethal Weaponled to a small explosion in interchangeable mismatched pal comedies likeRed HeatandThe Last male child Scout , and the picture itself engender three subsequence . The rule had gotten noticeably stale by the metre of 1998’sLethal arm 4 , though Black attempted to lure Gibson and Glover backfor a fifth movieabout Riggs and Murtaugh scrap mercenaries during a blizzard in New York ; that version was ultimately canned .

Related:Shane Black Reveals His Pitch For Lethal Weapon 5

Talk of Donner and the team getting back together forLethal arm 5flared up again in late 2017 , only for Donner himself tocast doubt on the continuation happeningthanks to difficult negotiations with the studio apartment . Now it seems the project is still active after all because during an appearance onGilbert Gottfried ’s Amazing Colossal Podcast , he very briefly touched on it . During the introduction where the Host list off his telling survey , Donner chop-chop worst in with " And 5 come up ! " after they mentioned the four previousLethal Weaponmovies .

That ’s manifestly not much to go on , but given how downbeat Donner sound about the prospect of the movie happening at all just a few months ago , it ’s an supporting sign . WithSylvester Stallone having latterly announcedRambo Vand Schwarzenegger coming back for a newTerminator , there ’s no reason a finalLethal Weaponcan’t happen too . That enjoin , hopefully the fib will be a little fresher than the last couple of subsequence .

Lethal Weaponis currently in the intelligence thanks to a casting shake-up on the TV show interlingual rendition . The telly adaptation recoil off in 2016 with thespian Clayne Crawford and Damon Wayans taking over as Riggs and Murtaugh , butCrawford was lately fireddue to a number of onrush incidents . ActorSeann William Scottwas chop-chop drafted to take his place and will reportedly play Riggs ' crony . Fox ordered a somewhat shorter 13 installment run for time of year 3 as a result , perchance to see if viewer take to the new buddy dynamic between Wayans and Scott .