Der har længe været planer og rygter om, at et femte kapitel i Lethal Weapon serien stadig er på vej, men hver dag der går, synes det at blive mindre og mindre sandsynligt, når man tager alderen på hovedpersonerne Mel Gibson og Danny Glover (henholdsvis Martin Riggs og Roger Murtaugh) i betragtning.
Gibson virker stadig overbevist om, at filmen vil blive lavet, og i den forbindelse har han i et nyligt interview med Collider delt en ny række plotinformation og detaljer, hvor han afslører, hvordan projektet vil passe ind i den moderne actiongenre, og hvordan det vil håndtere de ældre hovedroller.
"It only harks back to the others in the minimal way, but it's a story all on its own. The characters are quite different. They're older. One's retired. The other one's on a desk job. He's putting on too much weight, and it's low-tech. It doesn't 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. Like, let's say for instance, Apocalypto. It's a foot chase, right? But it's 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."
Gibson virker også overbevist om, at han ikke kun vil spille hovedrollen, men også instruere Lethal Weapon 5, og forklarer, at han lovede afdøde Richard Donner, den oprindelige instruktør, at han ville overtage rollen, når Donner døde.
"Donner, God rest his soul, he said to me in this deep voice, he said, 'Hey kid, if I drop off the perch, you'll take this over, won't you?' I said, 'Shut up! You're not going anywhere.' And of course he did. And, you know, when he passed away, I didn't say anything. But apparently he had told other people that too, so they all came to me and said, 'You direct it.' I said, 'Yeah, okay.'"
Med Lethal Weapon 5 stadig på tapetet, er du så spændt på det næste kapitel af den ikoniske franchise?
