Mel Gibson Talks "Lethal Weapon 5" Chances
- Dan Lalonde
- 3 days ago
- 2 min read
What is your favorite Mel Gibson film?
Good news for fans of the 'Lethal Weapon' series, as Mel Gibson talked with Collider about the chances for a fifth film in the series.
"Richard Wenk and I finished the script, and we were going to go into production, but it just never got the wheels under it. I think Warner’s got into some quicksand at that time… so it got buried somewhere, and now I think this David Ellison guy over at Paramount has absorbed or will absorb Warners, or it looks like he will. And maybe, maybe they’ll take the chains off that one, and you might see that in another year or so."
Gibson continued: "It only harks back to the others in the minimal way, but it’s a story all on its own. The characters are quite different. They’re older. One’s retired. The other one’s on a desk job. He’s putting on too much weight, and it’s low-tech. It doesn’t get into the big explosions and all this sort of stuff. But it still has the energy and, I think, drive of a big action film. Like, let’s say, for instance, 'Apocalypto.' It’s a foot chase, right? But it’s kind of filmed like a car chase. So it still has all the elements of what was in the other films, but not nearly so complicated. But it deals more about the people in it."
The reasons for this not happening are from real-life issues with Gibson now 70, and co-star Danny Gibson 80 years old and is battling Alzheimers. Are cops still on duty when they're that old, or are they not old enough for that shit?
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Written By: Dan Lalonde
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