It wasn’t long ago when fans seemed to be concerned about the revival of the once-glorious acting career of the Academy Award-winning Hollywood filmmaker Mel Gibson. They were in for a treat after the recent announcement of Mel Gibson starring in the much-anticipated three-part miniseries ‘The Continental’ besides action-thriller films including ‘Hot Seat, ‘Wake’, Waldo’, ‘Panama’, ‘Bandit’, ‘Agent Game’, and ‘On the Line’.
Into the bargain, Mel Gibson is now said to be in talks to direct and star in the fifth installment of the cult buddy cop film series ‘Lethal Weapon’ for HBO Max. The first four ‘Lethal Weapon’ movies were helmed by blockbuster director Richard Donner (Superman, The Omen), who had died earlier this year. Talks about the fifth and last ‘Lethal Weapon’ movie were doing the rounds after ‘Lethal Weapon 4’ came out in the year 1998.
The original 1987 film ‘Lethal Weapon’ revolved around a pair of diametrically opposite LAPD cops, who are forced to unwillingly team up as partners to bring a drug-smuggling gang to justice. One cop Martin Riggs (Mel Gibson) has suicidal tendencies and is on a death wish following his wife’s death. And the other one is the veteran but unlucky cop Roger Murtaugh (Danny Glover). How the two cops eventually bond with each other forms the crux of the film.
‘Lethal Weapon 5’ would likely be another well-deserved feather in the cap, for the supremely talented Mel Gibson, who first shot to fame by starring in the Mad Max film trilogy and subsequently in the ‘Lethal Weapon’ films.
Later, Mel Gibson directed the multiple Oscar-winning historical epic film ‘Braveheart’, the controversial film ‘Passion of the Christ’, the action-adventure film ‘Apocalypto’, and more recently the World War II drama ‘Hacksaw Ridge’. Indeed, there are loads of reasons to be excited about ‘Lethal Weapon 5’.