Lethal Weapon reboot in the works
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This is just such a horrible idea.
The sad thing is, apparently LW scribe Shane Black wrote a script for a LW5, the first one he had written since the original. This would have featured Riggs & Murtagh but also Murtagh's son and a new generation of cops. Thus you could have had a sort of reboot, Lethal Weapon The Next Generation or whatever, while not ignoring the original. But Mad Mel didn't want to do it.
There's plenty of scope for a buddy-buddy cop movie in the vein of Lethal Weapon but I don't know why they're going to remake the original.
The sad thing is, apparently LW scribe Shane Black wrote a script for a LW5, the first one he had written since the original. This would have featured Riggs & Murtagh but also Murtagh's son and a new generation of cops. Thus you could have had a sort of reboot, Lethal Weapon The Next Generation or whatever, while not ignoring the original. But Mad Mel didn't want to do it.
There's plenty of scope for a buddy-buddy cop movie in the vein of Lethal Weapon but I don't know why they're going to remake the original.
I have to say I am pretty sceptical. As Starkers pointed out, it's the chemistry between Gibson and Glover which really make those movies great.
Still, If I had to recast off the top of my head I think Ryan Reynolds could make a pretty good Riggs. Not sure who they'd get for Murtagh though.
Still, If I had to recast off the top of my head I think Ryan Reynolds could make a pretty good Riggs. Not sure who they'd get for Murtagh though.
^ Ugh. I like Reynolds plenty but not for Riggs. I'd want the dangerous, borderline psycho from the first movie, not the clown with a gun from the later ones. Someone like Jeremy Renner, maybe.
^ Haven't seen it, so maybe you're right. I just associate him with wisecracks and sarcasm. Which is fine and dandy but I liked it when Riggs was edgier.
Just fuck them and everyone who's going to be involved in it, and everyone who's going to watch it.
So, when are they going to reboot Back to the Future, Indiana Jones and Die Hard?
So, when are they going to reboot Back to the Future, Indiana Jones and Die Hard?
It's a sad state in the movie industry that we even have to think about rebooting old movies.
Are we so bereft of new ideas?
Around the same time they reboot Jaws.
And if that ever happens, I'm putting together a posse to go and burn Hollywood to the fucking ground.
Back to the Future is already in the planning stages, supposedly. I think it's a horrible idea, as is Lethal Weapon. As was Nightmare on Elm Street.
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BTTF is where I draw the line of pointless retarded "reboots". I've dreaded the day forever, and yet with how pathetic Hollywood is these days, it's not a question of if, but unfortunately when.
And what ever happened to the good old days when Hollywood just told it like it was and just admitted it was a remake, instead of creating the whole "reboot" buzzword craze? Every time I hear the word reboot, I want to kill a puppy.
Every time I hear it, I want to kill a Hollywood producer.
How about we split the difference, and kill a Hollywood producer's puppy?
Actually, no. I still like your idea better.
I don't want to seem melodramatic, but if they ever remake Die Hard, it will portent the coming apocalypse and the end of civilisation as we know it.
On topic, given what passes for creativity in Hollywood these days, what's the odds they decide to be rilly, rilly clever and make the Riggs character black and the Murtagh one white? Like, rilly radically reinterpreting LW, y'know? Liam Neeson for Murtagh maybe?!
On topic, given what passes for creativity in Hollywood these days, what's the odds they decide to be rilly, rilly clever and make the Riggs character black and the Murtagh one white? Like, rilly radically reinterpreting LW, y'know? Liam Neeson for Murtagh maybe?!
^ You know - I'd go see that!!!!!!