Is 2024 the year Mel Gibson and Danny Glover return as Martin Riggs and Roger Murtaugh for ‘Lethal Weapon 5’?

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Even during his post-legendary Hollywood status, Mel Gibson has been consistently delivering the action with films like Edge of Darkness, Get the Gringo, Blood Father, Dragged Across Concrete, and his directorial comeback, Hacksaw Ridge – not to mention the recent John Wick spin-off, The Continental.

It has been in the air for the last two years, but Gibson has been vocal about re-teaming with Danny Glover to reprise their roles as Martin Riggs and Roger Murtaugh, respectively, in a 5th Lethal Weapon film, which Gibson will also direct off a semi-completed script by the late Richard Donner (Superman, Lethal Weapon franchise).

Gibson is also enlisting the help of Richard Wenk, who is perhaps best known for writing The Equalizer, The Protégé, The Expendables 2 and Jack Reacher: Never Go Back.

Here’s what Gibson told JoBlo back in 2022: “It’s in the works, you know? It’s one of those things whereby it’s a no-brainer if you ask me. I’ve worked on the screenplay, which, of course, was started by Donner (the late Richard Donner)…and of course, he and a guy had a pretty good template going. Donner, of course, passed away. And then I sat in and we kind of finished up the script and I had a blast working with Richard Wenk – the writer. You know, it’s a pretty good document. I dig it a lot. I think what’s held it up is that at Warners, they’re changing hats over there… you know… this guy got fired, and this guy took over and Discovery and all that stuff. You get lost in the shuffle sometimes as they try and regroup and sort themselves out. It’ll come. I’m not quite sure when but it’ll happen.”

We’ll be seeing Gibson in front of the camera in the upcoming Boneyard and Boys of Summer. According to actor Jim Caviezel, who came back into the limelight with the controversial hit, Sound of Freedom, Gibson’s next gig behind the camera will be The Passion of the Christ: Resurrection (a sequel to 2004’s The Passion of the Christ), where Caviezel will reprise his role as Jesus Christ. So who knows? Maybe this is what will give him studio leverage to turn Lethal Weapon 5 into a reality.

As 2024 approaches, here’s hoping for some Lethal Weapon 5 updates. Stay tuned!