We’ve been reporting for a while that, despite the age of director Richard Donner (he’s 90!), things were looking set for a fifth Lethal Weapon movie (here) with all parties keen to return.
And now we have confirmation that, yes, it looks like it’s coming!
In a new interview, Donner talks about the Mel Gibson and Danny Glover franchise, and confirms that he’s set to wind the whole story up.
“This is the final one,” Donner said.
“It’s both my privilege and duty to put it to bed. It’s exciting, actually… Hahaha! It’s the last one, I’ll promise you that.”
The franchise starring Gibson and Glover as cops Riggs and Murtaugh, partners who really shouldn’t be friends but work perfectly together much to the delight of fans who followed the duo gleefully through four movies in the 1980s and 90s.
Recently Glover confirmed he has read the script and is excited to make the movie, saying: “If it does happen, there is something extraordinary in it… It would be interesting to do. It would be interesting to see how we take this within the political framework we are in; the economic framework that we are in. And especially that framework as opposed to the communities that have been affected by the kind of police violence, the kind of police standards, and the power that they exert as well. And what would be interesting from that vantage point is what that attempt could be like at this particular moment.”
Get the order in for popcorn and coke, because cinemas are coming back this year, guys and Riggs and Murtaugh are coming soon too…
Source: The Telegraph
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