Mel Gibson hopes to shoot the fifth installment of Lethal Weapon in early 2023

The long-awaited fifth installment of ‘Lethal Weapon’ It could be shot in early 2023. This has been advanced by Mel Gibson during an interview with ScreenRant, although at the moment there is nothing signed. Let us remember that after the death in July 2021 of Richard Donner, responsible for the four installments of the franchise, Gibson assumed the creative reins of the project and in principle everything points to being its director.

In their own words, the project “It’s coming along really well, we’ve got a really good script that I developed. Well, Donner developed it, Richard Donner, of course, developed it with Richard Wenk, and they had a really good draft.”. The filmmaker adds that “I had the honor of sitting down, after Richard passed away, with the writer and doing a couple more drafts and trying to do it in the spirit of what we thought Donner might want, because I knew him so well. We tried to get that tone, and We are quite happy with what we have achieved.”.

Of course, if the project has not yet gone into production or has received the green light, it seems that it has not been due to its script, nor because of the death of the one who was going to be its director. “The only delay now is the reorganization at Warner, with the arrival of Discovery and a new boss, who cut down everyone who was there, throw them away and put new people in”Gibson comments to the aforementioned medium. “It always takes time for these companies to regroup, so that’s been a big delay. But I’m pretty sure we’ll get it up and probably shoot it in the first quarter of the new year.”.

In ‘Lethal Weapon 5‘ We’re supposed to meet Martin Riggs on the verge of retirement, but first he’ll have to tackle one last tricky case, requiring the help of his old partner Roger Murtaugh.

Based on the fact that the leading role of Mel Gibson (66 years old) and Danny Glover (76 years old) seems essential and unquestionable, it remains to be seen if the return of other old acquaintances of the saga is also planned, such as Darlene Love, Steve Kahan, Joe Pesci, Rene Russo or Chris Rock.

At first, it was said that the intention was to release the film directly on HBO Max, although after the aforementioned merger between WarnerMedia and Discovery, Inc. and the change in policy carried out by the new CEO, David Zaslav, it can be said. take for granted that it will be distributed in theaters, especially after the success of ‘Top Gun: Maverick’.

The fourth and for now the last installment of this saga backed by Warner Bros. was released in the summer of 1998, and since then Richard Donner has only directed two films that were not successful either commercially or artistically: The disappointing ‘Timeline‘ in 2003 and the appreciable ‘16 streets‘ in 2006.

Finally, remember that Gibson has directed a total of five films to date: ‘The faceless man’ (1993), ‘brave heart’ (nineteen ninety five), ‘The Passion of the Christ’ (2004), ‘Apocalypse’ (2006) and ‘To the last man’ (2016). Take charge of the fifth installment of ‘Lethal Weapon’ it would serve to pay tribute to a director with whom he worked on the previous four films in the saga, as well as on ‘Maverick’ Y ‘conspiracy’.

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Mel Gibson hopes to shoot the fifth installment of Lethal Weapon in early 2023