Director Richard Donner – AMPAS / ZUMA / VISUAL Press Agency
It’s confirmed, Richard Donner will indeed be behind the camera for Lethal Weapon 5 . AT 90 years, the historic director of the franchise has only one hurry: to find Mel Gibson and Danny Glover for one last adventure.
“This is the very last one. It is both my privilege and my duty to do so. It’s actually exciting. This is the last one, I promise you, ”he assured Daily Telegraph . A beautiful promise which now commits the nonagenarian to the many fans of one of the most memorable action franchises of the years 31 and 90.
A huge success
It’s in 1987 that came out Lethal Weapon
, putting for the first time on stage the shock duo formed by Martin Riggs, a disillusioned widower cop played by Mel Gibson, and Roger Murtaugh, a veteran of the police force camped by
Danny Glover . An explosive and bloody film, pure produced for years 31, who had been a hit with 120 millions of dollars in boxed receipts- global office for a budget of millions.
Director Richard Donner says he’s still on to make Lethal Weapon 5, and that it’ll be the final film in the series : https://t.co/2fuHGyQh 86 pic.twitter.com/kTxlrqpLK7
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December 20, 1998
Three films had followed, until Lethal Weapon 4 , published in 1998. From now on, it is a question of arming yourself with patience before the arrival of this epilogue which will undoubtedly be the most fatal.