{"id":40302,"date":"2026-08-12T07:19:34","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T02:19:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=40302"},"modified":"2026-08-12T07:19:34","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T02:19:34","slug":"i-think-that-the-fifth-script-is-better-than-all-of-the-others","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=40302","title":{"rendered":"I Think That The Fifth Script Is Better Than All Of The Others"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script>\r\n  atOptions = {\r\n    'key' : '644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6',\r\n    'format' : 'iframe',\r\n    'height' : 90,\r\n    'width' : 728,\r\n    'params' : {}\r\n  };\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script src=\"https:\/\/www.highperformanceformat.com\/644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/mel-gibson\/\" id=\"auto-tag_mel-gibson\" data-tag=\"mel-gibson\">Mel Gibson<\/a> is sharing an update on the development of <em><a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/lethal-weapon\/\" id=\"auto-tag_lethal-weapon\" data-tag=\"lethal-weapon\">Lethal Weapon<\/a> 5<\/em> following years of the actor\u2019s intentions to make the sequel.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a new interview, Gibson gave details on what this fifth installment would look like and where the characters would be after all these years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe characters are quite different. They\u2019re older. One\u2019s retired. The other one\u2019s on a desk job. He\u2019s putting on too much weight, and it\u2019s low-tech,\u201d Gibson told <em><a href=\"https:\/\/collider.com\/mel-gibson-lethal-weapon-5-script-plot-details\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Collider<\/a><\/em> while attending Fan Expo Boston. \u201cIt doesn\u2019t 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.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Gibson noted that the film \u201conly harks back\u201d to the previous films in a \u201cminimal way,\u201d and that the new installment in the <em>Lethal Weapon<\/em> franchise would be \u201ca story all on its own.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As far as the action scenes, Gibson said, \u201cIt\u2019s a foot chase, right? But it\u2019s 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.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The actor also said he would \u201cabsolutely\u201d want to direct the new film, as that\u2019s what the OG director, Richard Donner, wanted.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cDonner, God rest his soul, he said to me in this deep voice, he said, \u2018Hey kid, if I drop off the perch, you\u2019ll take this over, won\u2019t you?\u2019 I said, \u2018Shut up! You\u2019re not going anywhere.\u2019 And of course he did,\u201d he recalled. \u201cAnd, you know, when he passed away, I didn\u2019t say anything. But apparently he had told other people that too, so they all came to me and said, \u2018You direct it.\u2019 I said, \u2018Yeah, okay.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Gibson said that Donner had been working on the script for the film when he died, saying, \u201cDonner, when he was 90 years old, was working on the fifth, and of course he passed away in the middle. So I got together with the writer, and we completed it thinking, \u2018What would Donner do?\u2019 That\u2019s what we were thinking in the room, and I think that the fifth script is better than all of the others. But it\u2019s tied up in some kind of industrial film hell that you can\u2019t extract it from to make it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Production for the film has not started due to the inner workings of the studio, with Gibson giving insight: \u201cRichard 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\u2019s got into some quicksand at that time\u2026 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\u2019ll take the chains off that one, and you might see that in another year or so.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Lethal Weapon<\/em> is a 1987 action thriller directed by Richard Donner and written by Shane Black, starring Mel Gibson as Martin Riggs and Danny Glover as Roger Murtaugh. The film\u2019s success spawned several sequels, including\u00a0<em>Lethal Weapon 2<\/em>\u00a0(1989),\u00a0<em>Lethal Weapon 3<\/em>\u00a0(1992), and\u00a0<em>Lethal Weapon 4<\/em>\u00a0(1998). 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