Warner Brothers/Joel Silver to produce Lethal Weapon Reboot
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Warner Brothers/Joel Silver to produce Lethal Weapon Reboot
http://www.deadline.com/2011/01/warn...weapon-reboot/
Warner Bros and producer Joel Silver have set Will Beall to write Lethal Weapon, with a take that will relaunch the buddy cop series with a new cast. Beall, a former LA police officer who patrolled South Central and wrote the novel L.A. Rex, has seen his stock rise at the studio because of his script Gangster Squad, the period crime drama about an elite crime squad that fought against organized crime kingpins like Mickey Cohen. Zombieland helmer Ruben Fleischer has come aboard to direct that film.
Warner Bros has been messing around for some time with Lethal Weapon 5, with a treatment written by original scribe Shane Black. The plan was to bring the original team back, but schedules didn't match up and Mel Gibson's image has taken a self-inflicted beating. Beall pitched a take that maintains the tone of the original--a hard R-rated edgy street cop movie.
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Warner Bros and producer Joel Silver have set Will Beall to write Lethal Weapon, with a take that will relaunch the buddy cop series with a new cast. Beall, a former LA police officer who patrolled South Central and wrote the novel L.A. Rex, has seen his stock rise at the studio because of his script Gangster Squad, the period crime drama about an elite crime squad that fought against organized crime kingpins like Mickey Cohen. Zombieland helmer Ruben Fleischer has come aboard to direct that film.
Warner Bros has been messing around for some time with Lethal Weapon 5, with a treatment written by original scribe Shane Black. The plan was to bring the original team back, but schedules didn't match up and Mel Gibson's image has taken a self-inflicted beating. Beall pitched a take that maintains the tone of the original--a hard R-rated edgy street cop movie.
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If your not familiar with Will Beall, he's also a writer on the show Castle
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm3263825/
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I'd rather have a reboot over another sequel. LW3 was lacking, and LW4 was just completely awful.
Depends on the leads. Gibson and Glover were great together.
Depends on the leads. Gibson and Glover were great together.
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I'm sure the script will go through several re-writes/writers before it officially gets greenlit. It is good that they hired a former LAPD Cop to pen the 1st draft to get the ball rolling.
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I don't really care, since I'm getting too old for this shit... add that to the fact that the Lethal Weapon franchise sucked donkey dick.
Hey at least Mel Gibson won't be involved. So it's already got that going for it.
Hey at least Mel Gibson won't be involved. So it's already got that going for it.
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Why not just call it something else? It would be pretty hard to find another pair that had the same chemistry being Riggs and Murtaugh as Gibson and Glover had. And I wonder if they'll get the Donners to be involved? Sure the original series lost its luster after part 2, but a reboot? We already have this on tv each week in Hawaii Five-0.
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Lethal Weapon Reloaded
Starring:
Adrien Brody as Riggsberg
Lenny Kravitz as Murtaughwitz
Also starring as the main villain:
Mel Gibson as Mel Gibson
Starring:
Adrien Brody as Riggsberg
Lenny Kravitz as Murtaughwitz
Also starring as the main villain:
Mel Gibson as Mel Gibson
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I find it vaguely promising that they're aiming R-rated and slightly intriguing that (at least, based on how the Deadline blurb is written) they're using parts of Black's Lethal 5 script, but I'm not very interested. I liked all four Lethals, but the fact that the fourth one was fun (at least to me) seemed like enough of a miracle. There's not enough specific meat on the bones, in my opinion, for remaking, so unless it's got a brilliant pairing of lead actors, I'll pass.
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I'm curious how they would go with the casting...
Ryan Reynolds and Jamie Foxx?
James Franco and Terrence Howard?
Chris Pine and Idris Elba?
Bradley Cooper and Laurence Fishburne?
Seann William Scott and Martin Lawrence?
Ryan Reynolds and Jamie Foxx?
James Franco and Terrence Howard?
Chris Pine and Idris Elba?
Bradley Cooper and Laurence Fishburne?
Seann William Scott and Martin Lawrence?
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I can't wait to skip this, and when it comes out on Blu, I'm a first day not pre-order. Also featuring their new female partner officer Sugar Tits, the jew responsible for all the wars in the world.
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"Oh, that Mel Gibson movie? I don't want to see it. What? He's not in it? I don't care to see it anyway."
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I can actually see the bolded on working. Maybe even Bradley Cooper and Laurence Fishburne.