Donner On Lethal Weapon 5

Director ponders final Lethal Weapon

HOLLYWOOD — Richard Donner has a few lethal ideas to help revive some of his most successful films.

Donner, who directed all four of the Lethal Weapon movies, feels there’s still life in the franchise that has netted more than a billion dollars worldwide.

“I have the story in my head for a fifth and final Lethal Weapon, but it’s all up to Mel Gibson,” says Donner, who directed Paul Walker in the time travel adventure Timeline that opens Nov. 26.

“It would be 24 hours in the lives of Riggs (Gibson) and Murtaugh (Danny Glover). The last couple of times I talked to Mel, it really seemed he was interested in doing one more.

“I really want to put the franchise to bed properly.”

In 1985, two years before he scored with Lethal Weapon, Donner directed the family adventure movie The Goonies.

Donner says Steven Spielberg, who wrote and produced Goonies, “definitely wants to do a sequel.

“Our idea is to bring back some of the original Goonies, including Sean Astin, Josh Brolin and Corey Feldman, and team them up with some new young actors.”

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cherish gibson said:

i think you should definately make lethal weapon 5. i absolutely love them they are funny and filled with action and i love mel gibson he is a fabulous actor, please hurry up and start filming cause i want to see it. the series is so popular i live in australia and so many people enjoy watching them and joe pesci he is so funny, so i hope you take my advice and start filming soon for the sake of everyone. yours faithfully cherish.

Commented on January 13th, 2004 at 9:01 pm.

cherish gibson said:

i think you should definately make lethal weapon 5. i absolutely love them they are funny and filled with action and i love mel gibson he is a fabulous actor, please hurry up and start filming cause i want to see it. the series is so popular i live in australia and so many people enjoy watching them and joe pesci he is so funny, so i hope you take my advice and start filming soon for the sake of everyone. yours faithfully cherish.

Commented on January 13th, 2004 at 9:01 pm.

cherish gibson said:

i think you should definately make lethal weapon 5. i absolutely love them they are funny and filled with action and i love mel gibson he is a fabulous actor, please hurry up and start filming cause i want to see it. the series is so popular i live in australia and so many people enjoy watching them and joe pesci he is so funny, so i hope you take my advice and start filming soon for the sake of everyone. yours faithfully cherish.

Commented on January 13th, 2004 at 9:01 pm.

Anonymous said:

An eventuall leathal weapon 5 would be a very great movie only if Shane Black writte the scenario.After the catastrophics two last episodics, and the re-wrotte second one,it’s still time to turn back to the real original sense of lethal weapon!Please if you want to make a fifht,close the franchise seriously and respectuously!!Why not finally kill Riggs,as it should have been in the number two?That would be a great sobberly final!!

Commented on February 10th, 2004 at 8:43 am.

souladie said:

An eventuall leathal weapon 5 would be a very great movie only if Shane Black writte the scenario.After the catastrophics two last episodics, and the re-wrotte second one,it’s still time to turn back to the real original sense of lethal weapon!Please if you want to make a fifht,close the franchise seriously and respectuously!!Why not finally kill Riggs,as it should have been in the number two?That would be a great sobberly final!!

Commented on February 10th, 2004 at 8:44 am.

souladie said:

An eventuall leathal weapon 5 would be a very great movie only if Shane Black writte the scenario.After the catastrophics two last episodics, and the re-wrotte second one,it’s still time to turn back to the real original sense of lethal weapon!Please if you want to make a fifht,close the franchise seriously and respectuously!!Why not finally kill Riggs,as it should have been in the number two?That would be a great sobberly final!!

Commented on February 10th, 2004 at 8:44 am.

N/A said:

souladie listen up you are stupid if you did not like the movie. Riggs is the best caritcar and i would love to be a cop because of his role even though i can not do that in real life but i sure can try. Any way they well mak the 5th but riggs well not die and danny glover you need to rejoy the group if you can. With out you Lethal weapon would not be the same. if the dircetor see this you need to get everyone from the 4 leathal weapon.

Commented on March 12th, 2004 at 3:39 pm.

Robert Archer said:

Lethal Weapon set the pace as far as buddie action & buddie action comedy movies are concerned, from Tango & Cash to Turner & Hooch to Rush hour 2 and recently the new Starsky & Hutch remake. So i say ‘Leathal Weapon 5 all the way baby’…. Lets turn up the heat again!!

Commented on March 17th, 2004 at 5:39 am.

Rhys said:

Oh i would love to see lethal weapon 5 and i would like to see a good finale to finish off the series…and bring back the whole gang riggs, murtaugh, leo, that’s riggs’s girlfriend from lethal 3 and 4 but i forgot her name. It would be great to see leo with his funny stuff again and also bring back butters from lethal 4. And i want to see a good plot and some real good good action…maybe after this lethal riggs and murtaugh will retire from their job.

Commented on May 28th, 2004 at 7:11 pm.