Well there already was a Lethal Weapon 5… made by some people at a pub in Philadelphia if my memory serves me right… Great job as always dude, this was well worth the wait!
As much as I like Lethal Weapon 2, and think it’s the best in the franchise, I do really want to read Shane Black’s original script for it. He called it the best thing he ever wrote, but it’s not online anywhere
The original's the best, the tonal shift worked far better than it should have, but, the stereotypically atrocious accents absolutely took me out of the film, and, the last two films were even worse.
@jamesmorant1406 Martin Riggs has unfortunately aged like milk, the sequels turned him into Vic Mackey with a sadistic sense of humor, and, the fact that Mel Gibson portrayed him has really been ruinous from the meta perspective.
@@matthewdaley746I like part 4 the best. Just shows it’s a strong series overall with 4 solid movies. I wouldn’t argue with anyone that thinks any of them are the best. IMO all of them are good.
Speaking of Shane Black, how about a What Could Have Been for Last Boy Scout? His original script is online to read. It’s really good. You can totally see why it created a bidding war and sold for record numbers. Black and Tony Scott even said the script was better than the film, but Joel Silver and Bruce Willis took over and kept changing things
Joel Silver's totally idiotic, he's the reason, Lethal Weapon, never made a great film following the original after he fired Shane Black out of jealousy, he's a talentless hack that would be homeless if not for this, and, Die Hard.
@@ivanagustinortiz5237Yeah, but, he could back it up, the fact that his career was reduced to pathetic, DTV, fare, before a forced retirement, seriously, is an completely unthinkable tragedy, really is.
14:15 - Okay, now THAT is something I would've LOVED to see there!😲 The fact that his kicks were THAT fast back then really shows just how much a beast Li was and probably STILL is to this day.
If you think Jet Li was a beast in LW4, then watch his other movies made around the same time period because Hong Kong cinema figured out how to capture every lighting fast kick and/or punch long before Hollywood. However nowadays Jet Li has taken a break from acting due to a medical condition which was why in Disney's live action _Mulan_ he spends most of time seated.
I like how Lethal Weapon 2 & 3 turned out… the original 4 sounds interesting, and I’m always down for Shane Black with the 5th one. Mel Gibson keeps wanting Lethal Weapon 5 to happen, and I hope it does, it would be nice to send the series off with a hit
That Ship Has Sailed, if Mel Gibson really wanted to make the film it would have already happened, and, if Shane Black's not writing the script, there's just no point, anyway, alas, too tragic.
I read Boam's 2nd draft from 1995 or '96. He only wrote two. Donner made him rewrite it to include Leo Getz. It opens in 1975 with Riggs in a Vietnam POW camp about to get tortured. He and his soldier buddy turn the tables on VC and escape. It's all very Deer Hunter. Later, it's revealed the soldier he escaped with who is Riggs' equal in combat is the head bad guy about to assassinate a black Senator by shooting a rocket launcher at his airplane from a top of a building. Riggs, of course, stops him in a fist fight to the death. I remember it was a good script. The best of the bunch and I read almost every LW 4 script from Lemkin to Channing Gibson. I remember, I also liked the script from the guys who created Smallville, Millar & Gough. They wrote a fun draft, too. In my opinion, though, Lemkin and Channing Gibson wrote the worst drafts.
That scene from Lethal weapon where he stood in the playground with the kids was actually filmed, i remember seeing an alternative cut of the film with that scene in it instead of the Xmas tree scene
Here's a good idea for a future "Bullets & Blockbusters" episode: *"The Original Plans for* *the DEATH WISH 2018 Remake"* In 2006, the remake was first announced to have Sylvester Stallone (as both the film director & lead star) as Paul Kersey who was rewritten as a really good cop who had excellent success without using his gun. But after his family was attacked, Paul Kersey would be thrown into a moral dilemma in proceeding to carry out his revenge.
@TheGuyInTheCheapSeats Long Kiss Good Night was a Shane Black action film 🎬. The basic plot is the CIA trying to stage major terror attacks to get more budget funds. 💰💰💰 This in 2000s 2010s seemed highly un-needed, poorly constructed.
Another fun fact about Black's original LW draft...it was Mr. Joshua who killed Riggs' wife Victoria NOT the South African as it was later revealed in LW2.
Personally for the last one they got to get a good villain for Riggs and murtaugh to fight, e.g. someone their own age like guys who were considered to play Martin Riggs before Mel Gibson got the part. Guys like Michael Keaton, Kurt Russell, Dennis Quaid, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sylvester Stallone, Harrison Ford, Billy Petersen, Christopher lambert, etc.
Lethal Weapon 5 needs to bring back everybody that they can from all 4 movies!!!! Mel Gibson! Danny Glover! Joe Pesci! Rene Russo! Chris Rock! Traci Wolfe! Darlene Love! Damon Hines! Ebonie Smith! Calvin Jung! Nestor Serrano! Maybe add Milo Gibson and Jake Busey to the cast!!
It would have been a disaster, John McClane is far too grounded of a character, (in the first three films, anyway), and, the later films also showed that Bruce Willis, crashes, and, burns, whenever, he tries superhero characters, no doubt.
@@matthewdaley746He did pretty decently in Unbreakable, from what I’m told. (And I feel like the issues in Glass can’t really be blamed on him - aphasia’s a bitch.)
It also sounds like Die Hard 5. I wonder if that was influenced by the unproduced script. I guess Mel Gibson was right, send all the LW5 scripts to Fox to make into Die Hard sequels.
Shane Black had Tom Atkins in mind after he starred in Black's friend Fred Dekker's film Night Of The Creeps. This also reflects Black seeing Riggs as an older man, having served in the Special Forces in Vietnam would suggest he had several years Army service prior to that. And the archetype character Riggs was was the old bad man gunslinger of Western Lore, akin to John Wayne in The Searchers or Spencer Tracy in Bad Day At Black Rock. As would happen decades later with John Wick, the character went from that to much younger once Hollywood didn't want an older leading man (see also Die Hard and Commando). Atkins however got something out of it, being cast in LW as Murtaugh's Vietnam buddy, Michael Hunsaker.
One of the first casting choices of the Lee Butters character in LW4 was Sean (at the time; Puff Daddy) Combs who turned it down for fears it might mess with his _Bad Boy_ brand. Best decision he ever made 😅
While I've no issues with project leads (competently) finessing material, the original scripts you discuss sound better. I think the films as released reflect this. Everything beyond the first film, which itself seems chaotic, sound increasingly nightmarish. Aside: After a number of great projects like Kiss Kiss Bang Bang and The Nice Guys, it's challenging to reconcile that Shane Black with the one who wrote and directed the recent The Predator.
In all honesty, I wonder if the hesitation from WB in making a 5th Lethal Weapon with Mel Gibson has anything to do with either genuine lack of interest from studio executives running things now and/or their hesitation to work with Mel Gibson again because of his personal luggage and controversies?
Well, unnecessary sequels have become a standard trend nowadays, so it’s easy to imagine that if Warner could have reignited the LW saga, they would have already done it by now. The only problem is undoubtedly Gibson’s unmarketable reputation.
I miss the darkness of the original movie. It makes Riggs' redemption arc, and Murtaugh's acceptance of his new partner, much more satisfying. The "Lethal" part of Lethal Weapon has been gone as of #4. Bring back Shane Black's Neo-Nazi script. The first was vicious ex military drug dealers. Second had South African apartheid (scumbags) using the system to commit crimes. The third had dirty LAPD cops turned to organized crime. The forth, human traffickers who counterfeit Chinese money......see where it falls apart? I love Jet Li, and the 4th movie introduced him to the US, but the murdering of human beings part and slave labor was completely forgotten about after the opening scene on the boat. (Groan) After that, was Riggs and Murtaugh trying to figure out why their fishing trip was interrupted. The Neo-Nazi script sounds like it was more fitting to the franchise. Imagine, bad guys starting a race war in LA, with Riggs and Murtaugh's family stuck in the middle? Especially with the right casting. I'm sure Chris Rock would've jumped at the opportunity to take on racist hillbillies turning Los Angeles into a battlefield. I'm very glad that Reann and Riggs was never a thing. As a father myself, that would've been like Riggs making moves on his little sister! Not what I look for in a hero. ("I got 3 beautiful kids, I love em, they're yours!") Anyway. If Lethal Weapon was to come back, we need to bring it back to form. Riggs is the wildcard, and his conscience is the family he has made along the way. Roge, Trish, Launa, even Leo, they keep the Superman in check. And that is the message of Lethal Weapon, Riggs channeling the monster for the sake of protecting what makes him human.
As much as I enjoy all 4 movies, I do agree that the first one is the best for its near perfect mixture of a dark storyline and a bit of humor on top. One never outshines the other. As the films went on, however (especially with the introduction of Leo), the franchise got lighter and lighter. Again, they were still entertaining and had some memorable villains, but it just felt that they lost their teeth as they went along.
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The other reason Warners fast tracked Lethal 4 was that they had The Avengers lined up as their big money maker of Summer 1998. That shot in the Summer of 97. By the autumn, WB had seen an assembly edit and ordered a drastic cutting out of footage because they realized the movie was most certainly going to bomb or very much underperform, even after further editing. To offset their outgoings, WB needed a guaranteed hit for Summer 98. This is when they approached Donner and asked if they through enough money at him could he get LW4 written, shot and edited in time for July 98. Donner then pulled off the impossible, commencing shooting in Jan 98. As you say Mel Gibson fully milked the situation getting paid the most an actor had up to then. Interestingly his friend Robert Downey Jr did the same thing when Marvel pulled a last minute U-turn to make Captain America- Civil War after DC announced Batman V Superman. As your video shows a script for LW4 is dated May 1998, TWO MONTHS before its theatrical release. The Avengers released in August. As expected it bombed with the critics, and audiences. Not least due to some drastic editing to try and get the runtime down to ensure more screenings. Years later it's director offered to mount a re-edit to put the film back to its original length so it at least made sense. He said he'd do it for FREE just so people could see how his film should have been. But having made so little from cinema and home media sales, WB refused as they couldn't see any point.
Very funny that Gibson rejected a Shane Black written & directed LW5 since in the 2010s he attached himself to a project that was going to be directed by Black called The Cold Warrior about an ex-Cold War spy coming out of retirement to help with a mission involving an enemy from his past.
I really hope Lethal Weapon 5 happens... as they say it will... However... the more they delay the start of filming... the less likely it is to happen... for obvious reasons...
Wait, Die Hard with a Vengeance was originally intended for Brandon Lee?! Holy schbikies, i wish i could have seen that version. That could have been awesome!
In some respects, I agree Lethal Weapon shouldn't have gone past 2 movies. I mean, no disrespect as I enjoy 3 and 4 in their own way and their own showcases of the changes and drama of life, but I never felt they had much reason to exist in comparison to 1 and 2. Those first two also had a grit to them that made them stand out, and it steadily got aired out the further the films went along. I can see some really jelling with that, but for some reason, I both understand it, yet found it much less interesting to watch because of it.
@@matthewdaley746 To this day, the climax of 4 is still utterly unbelievable. Even with Riggs being a mad cap, he can't do it the same way without either killing himself or dealing damage that wouldn't heal right again.
@motherplayer The only thing that could have, possibly, remotely, saved that film would have been the two leads defeating the villain, but, at the cost of their own lives, the 1987 versions of these characters would have had zero chance, period.
Did...did I just see Gough and Millar's name on LW4's script?! 😂 Well, that woulda put Smallville in a whole new light (or LW4). Hollywood is weird. I kinda wanna see Shane Black's version of LW1 and 2, uncut, unadulterated, now. And given how much I don't like Iron Man 3, that thought...scares me. But yeah, there's no denying the massive change in tone between early and later LW movies, and though I love both, I prefer the more serious tone. The later films are at their best when they drop the comedy and go full action film. Made me love Rene Russo, too. (But I'm glad they didn't kill off Riggs. Why is Hollywood so bad at compromising between these things?!) P.S. Not NEARLY enough people talk about The Last Boy Scout. I didn't realize that was Shane Black, but it makes sense.
Given how Black is associated with the Lethal Weapon brand, it is funny how often his work has been altered. Joel Silver loved the original spec script from a nobody so much he bought it for $250,000 Then proceeded to hire a director known for lighter fare, who then had it filleted of it's harsh USP by another writer (Jeffrey Boam). Same thing happens on LW2. Then amusingly as soon as Boam has a blank page to write 3, Donner finds it too dark and hires the script doctor from the last film to water it down. Then Black, by now a superstar screenwriter is offered a record breaking 2 million for his new script, The Last Boy Scout. He decides to instead take WB's lower offer of 1.75 million, which is still record breaking. Because it means Joel Silver can produce it, and Black still has a great friendship with him even after LW1 and 2. Then guess what, same thing happens again, and LBS has a lot of its original darker script re-written! After this Black is hired by Silver to contribute to Last Action Hero. His script is then written over by several writers after that. Black can't catch a break, so retreats from screenwriting. Much later he makes an attempt to do things his way by not just writing Kiss, Kiss, Bang, Bang but directing it. And who does he hire as his producer? Joel Silver! The two remain friends to this day, and Silver produces his later film The Nice Guys.
Riggs was still a lethal weapon for the entire series, just because he didn’t wanna kill himself after the first one doesn’t mean the lethal weapon title lost its meaning.
Well the first there "Lethal Weapon" movies were sweet , and like they not comedy movies . Well at least not the first one that is , and I never watched the tv show .Like my bad , since seems I did want childhood wrecked by a sitcom .Which those movies are not , well maybe the fourth one for sure , cause Chris Rock was playing Chris Rock in it .And he never played himself in "New Jack City " .
LW5 will never happen, Gibson has burnt his bridges in Hollywood due to his behaviour, being relegated to doing DTV fair for the past decade and WB aren’t interested and ultimately they own the franchise.
First two films was great......3rd was good but the lesser out the franchise and the 4th was good and better than 3......3rd film luna shouldve died to continue riggs rage on the 4th keep riggs edge matta fact start the movie off with riggs being a drunk then we see his redemption as the movie goes on still with jet li in it of course the action stays the same wit dark tone.....riggs gets a new love interest and at the end of the movie she actually survives and shows riggs the pregnancy test
Didn't some guys in Philadelphia already did Lethal Weapon 5, 6 and 7? I'm pretty sure I saw those movies at a pub.
Didn't Murtaugh marry Rigg's daughter in that one ?
@@viktori9p895 they did! And for some reason one of the characters changed skin color
The make-up effects in those films are incredible.
What's all of that about? 🤔
@@ivanagustinortiz5237 it's a reference to it's always sunny in philadelphia.
Well there already was a Lethal Weapon 5… made by some people at a pub in Philadelphia if my memory serves me right…
Great job as always dude, this was well worth the wait!
And 6 and 7! Those versions are superior!
what are u refrence to?
@@rebel8185 Always Sunny in Philadelphia. FX. The opening was filmed at night! 🌃
I can never forget how badass Jet Li was in Lethal Weapon 4.
Plot Armor's horrible, unquestionably.
I can forget Lethal Weapon 4 tho.
@@mr.o6240Already forgotten it, unquestionably.
As much as I like Lethal Weapon 2, and think it’s the best in the franchise, I do really want to read Shane Black’s original script for it. He called it the best thing he ever wrote, but it’s not online anywhere
The original's the best, the tonal shift worked far better than it should have, but, the stereotypically atrocious accents absolutely took me out of the film, and, the last two films were even worse.
Shane Black dislikes the sequel's he felt they ruined Riggs character
@jamesmorant1406 Martin Riggs has unfortunately aged like milk, the sequels turned him into Vic Mackey with a sadistic sense of humor, and, the fact that Mel Gibson portrayed him has really been ruinous from the meta perspective.
@@matthewdaley746I like part 4 the best. Just shows it’s a strong series overall with 4 solid movies.
I wouldn’t argue with anyone that thinks any of them are the best. IMO all of them are good.
@@noahknight4039Original's really unassailable, period.
Speaking of Shane Black, how about a What Could Have Been for Last Boy Scout? His original script is online to read. It’s really good. You can totally see why it created a bidding war and sold for record numbers. Black and Tony Scott even said the script was better than the film, but Joel Silver and Bruce Willis took over and kept changing things
Joel Silver's totally idiotic, he's the reason, Lethal Weapon, never made a great film following the original after he fired Shane Black out of jealousy, he's a talentless hack that would be homeless if not for this, and, Die Hard.
@@matthewdaley746 don't forget that back then, Bruce Willis was a total diva.
@@ivanagustinortiz5237Yeah, but, he could back it up, the fact that his career was reduced to pathetic, DTV, fare, before a forced retirement, seriously, is an completely unthinkable tragedy, really is.
Producer Joel Silver fucked that movie up . He was there every fuckin day practically . Script changes all the time
@akfreed6949 Bruckheimer he's not, unquestionably.
Let’s not forget that the first film was also based off of Captain Holt in the 80s.
Who?
@@detroitdiezel7856B99 reference.
Peralta come here.
14:15 - Okay, now THAT is something I would've LOVED to see there!😲 The fact that his kicks were THAT fast back then really shows just how much a beast Li was and probably STILL is to this day.
Ending's indefensibly absurd, unquestionably.
If you think Jet Li was a beast in LW4, then watch his other movies made around the same time period because Hong Kong cinema figured out how to capture every lighting fast kick and/or punch long before Hollywood.
However nowadays Jet Li has taken a break from acting due to a medical condition which was why in Disney's live action _Mulan_ he spends most of time seated.
What Could Have Been: Gore Verbinski’s BioShock movie
I like how Lethal Weapon 2 & 3 turned out… the original 4 sounds interesting, and I’m always down for Shane Black with the 5th one. Mel Gibson keeps wanting Lethal Weapon 5 to happen, and I hope it does, it would be nice to send the series off with a hit
That Ship Has Sailed, if Mel Gibson really wanted to make the film it would have already happened, and, if Shane Black's not writing the script, there's just no point, anyway, alas, too tragic.
@@matthewdaley746 He doesn't need to do a 5 when he has "Dragged Across Concrete". But hey, that didn't make much money, so I can understand that too.
@@motherplayerReally bittersweet ending, unquestionably.
I do really want to read what Jeffrey Boam’s original Lethal Weapon 4 script. It sounded much better than the finished movie
Jeffrey Boam was a total, yes-man, and, the obvious drop in quality after the original was his fault, (among numerous other special parties), period.
Mel Gibson in a woketard flick, hell nah!
I read Boam's 2nd draft from 1995 or '96. He only wrote two. Donner made him rewrite it to include Leo Getz. It opens in 1975 with Riggs in a Vietnam POW camp about to get tortured. He and his soldier buddy turn the tables on VC and escape. It's all very Deer Hunter. Later, it's revealed the soldier he escaped with who is Riggs' equal in combat is the head bad guy about to assassinate a black Senator by shooting a rocket launcher at his airplane from a top of a building. Riggs, of course, stops him in a fist fight to the death.
I remember it was a good script. The best of the bunch and I read almost every LW 4 script from Lemkin to Channing Gibson. I remember, I also liked the script from the guys who created Smallville, Millar & Gough. They wrote a fun draft, too.
In my opinion, though, Lemkin and Channing Gibson wrote the worst drafts.
Me too
@@franklinmwesi6211Writing went haywire, unquestionably.
That scene from Lethal weapon where he stood in the playground with the kids was actually filmed, i remember seeing an alternative cut of the film with that scene in it instead of the Xmas tree scene
It's in the director's cut.
I have the directors cut and I love that scene. It should have been left in
It's in this video 😂
3:01 The thought of heroin snowing down on Hollywood on Christmas is hilarious.
Not very surprising, unquestionably.
There's still time for " Lethal Weapon 5 - Way To Old for this Sh%t!"
I absolutely love these movies. I think a sequel could be as big as the top gun sequel if done right.
Sequelitis was tragic, unquestionably.
Here's a good idea for a future
"Bullets & Blockbusters" episode:
*"The Original Plans for*
*the DEATH WISH 2018 Remake"*
In 2006, the remake was first
announced to have Sylvester Stallone
(as both the film director & lead
star) as Paul Kersey who was rewritten
as a really good cop who had excellent
success without using his gun. But after
his family was attacked, Paul Kersey
would be thrown into a moral dilemma in
proceeding to carry out his revenge.
Lethal Weapon is one of my favorite franchises.
Ended really badly, unquestionably.
@matthewdaley746 yeah, the 4th was ok but it was still a fun movie
@@stsolomon618Implausibilty ruined it, unquestionably.
The most unbelievable part about Lethal Weapon 5 is a military contractor starving for work.
A real fantasy, unquestionably.
That’s incredibly believable. Company’s, only selling diapers, make considerably more money than defense contractors.
@@josephjanisch5396Demand is perpetual, unquestionably.
@TheGuyInTheCheapSeats Long Kiss Good Night was a Shane Black action film 🎬. The basic plot is the CIA trying to stage major terror attacks to get more budget funds. 💰💰💰 This in 2000s 2010s seemed highly un-needed, poorly constructed.
@@DavidLLambertmobileAn underappreciated masterpiece, unquestionably.
Another fun fact about Black's original LW draft...it was Mr. Joshua who killed Riggs' wife Victoria NOT the South African as it was later revealed in LW2.
Personally for the last one they got to get a good villain for Riggs and murtaugh to fight, e.g. someone their own age like guys who were considered to play Martin Riggs before Mel Gibson got the part. Guys like Michael Keaton, Kurt Russell, Dennis Quaid, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sylvester Stallone, Harrison Ford, Billy Petersen, Christopher lambert, etc.
That's some serious film knowledge you got there my Man.
Thanks for the amazing video ❤
Do the original plans for TMNT 2014 when they were supposed to be aliens
The GOAT with another amazing episode. Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, and a Happy New Year bro.
Guillermo Del Toro’s Doctor Strange Please 🙏
I didn't know he was gonna do a version of doctor strange!
I don’t think it would’ve been that special tbh, considering the directors’ visions never really get to shine in an MCU project. They’re all the same
Lethal Weapon 5 needs to bring back everybody that they can from all 4 movies!!!! Mel Gibson! Danny Glover! Joe Pesci! Rene Russo! Chris Rock! Traci Wolfe! Darlene Love! Damon Hines! Ebonie Smith! Calvin Jung! Nestor Serrano! Maybe add Milo Gibson and Jake Busey to the cast!!
I love Willis. Perhaps even more than I do Gibson but I honestly can't stop imagining how manic Gibson's "McClane would have been
It would have been a disaster, John McClane is far too grounded of a character, (in the first three films, anyway), and, the later films also showed that Bruce Willis, crashes, and, burns, whenever, he tries superhero characters, no doubt.
@@matthewdaley746He did pretty decently in Unbreakable, from what I’m told.
(And I feel like the issues in Glass can’t really be blamed on him - aphasia’s a bitch.)
Writing was inadequate, unquestionably.
@@matthewdaley746 maybe so. But come on, wouldn't you pay to hear Gibson say "yippeekaiye"
Mel Gibson could SO have been in Die Hard as John McClane it would have worked and been just as big of a hit.
I saw Lethal Weapon 2 in theaters, and I loved it!! I am glad we didn't get what Black wanted!
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Great work! Great channel!
The 5th one sounds close like Beverly Hill Cop 4 Axel Foley.
It also sounds like Die Hard 5. I wonder if that was influenced by the unproduced script. I guess Mel Gibson was right, send all the LW5 scripts to Fox to make into Die Hard sequels.
How about What Could Have Been: The Predator?
The original idea by Donner was to have Christopher Reeve playing Riggs.
Shane Black had Tom Atkins in mind after he starred in Black's friend Fred Dekker's film Night Of The Creeps. This also reflects Black seeing Riggs as an older man, having served in the Special Forces in Vietnam would suggest he had several years Army service prior to that. And the archetype character Riggs was was the old bad man gunslinger of Western Lore, akin to John Wayne in The Searchers or Spencer Tracy in Bad Day At Black Rock. As would happen decades later with John Wick, the character went from that to much younger once Hollywood didn't want an older leading man (see also Die Hard and Commando). Atkins however got something out of it, being cast in LW as Murtaugh's Vietnam buddy, Michael Hunsaker.
3:21 - I’m now wondering what Jake Peralta from B99 would be like in a world where Mel Gibson was the lead in Die Hard.
09:27; Joblo discusses the entire series...and that weird '3' credit for Boam.
Oh wow, i suggested this one recently!
We’re not too old for this shit! - Riggs & Murtaugh in LH4
That seems like a remake of The Long Kiss Goodnight
One of the first casting choices of the Lee Butters character in LW4 was Sean (at the time; Puff Daddy) Combs who turned it down for fears it might mess with his _Bad Boy_ brand.
Best decision he ever made 😅
Hey Bullets And Blockbuster Can You Please Do What Could Have Been: Sam Worthington As Green Lantern (2011) For The First Video For 2025
Lethal Weapon 5: Wheelchair Fire
Plot: they fight over which channel is on the community room TV during nap time in the home.
Shane black is a underrated writer
Absolutely criminally underrated, unquestionably.
Too bad his iron man 3 writings getting lot of hate
While I've no issues with project leads (competently) finessing material, the original scripts you discuss sound better. I think the films as released reflect this. Everything beyond the first film, which itself seems chaotic, sound increasingly nightmarish.
Aside: After a number of great projects like Kiss Kiss Bang Bang and The Nice Guys, it's challenging to reconcile that Shane Black with the one who wrote and directed the recent The Predator.
Good overshadows bad, unquestionably.
In all honesty, I wonder if the hesitation from WB in making a 5th Lethal Weapon with Mel Gibson has anything to do with either genuine lack of interest from studio executives running things now and/or their hesitation to work with Mel Gibson again because of his personal luggage and controversies?
Well, unnecessary sequels have become a standard trend nowadays, so it’s easy to imagine that if Warner could have reignited the LW saga, they would have already done it by now. The only problem is undoubtedly Gibson’s unmarketable reputation.
Surely the latter, unquestionably.
@@LeMecQuiestCoolAn accurate fact, unquestionably.
Can you do one on the last boy scout please
I miss the darkness of the original movie. It makes Riggs' redemption arc, and Murtaugh's acceptance of his new partner, much more satisfying.
The "Lethal" part of Lethal Weapon has been gone as of #4. Bring back Shane Black's Neo-Nazi script. The first was vicious ex military drug dealers. Second had South African apartheid (scumbags) using the system to commit crimes. The third had dirty LAPD cops turned to organized crime. The forth, human traffickers who counterfeit Chinese money......see where it falls apart? I love Jet Li, and the 4th movie introduced him to the US, but the murdering of human beings part and slave labor was completely forgotten about after the opening scene on the boat. (Groan) After that, was Riggs and Murtaugh trying to figure out why their fishing trip was interrupted.
The Neo-Nazi script sounds like it was more fitting to the franchise. Imagine, bad guys starting a race war in LA, with Riggs and Murtaugh's family stuck in the middle? Especially with the right casting. I'm sure Chris Rock would've jumped at the opportunity to take on racist hillbillies turning Los Angeles into a battlefield.
I'm very glad that Reann and Riggs was never a thing. As a father myself, that would've been like Riggs making moves on his little sister! Not what I look for in a hero. ("I got 3 beautiful kids, I love em, they're yours!")
Anyway. If Lethal Weapon was to come back, we need to bring it back to form. Riggs is the wildcard, and his conscience is the family he has made along the way. Roge, Trish, Launa, even Leo, they keep the Superman in check. And that is the message of Lethal Weapon, Riggs channeling the monster for the sake of protecting what makes him human.
Shane Black has to write the script, and, both leads must die at the end of the film, otherwise, there's really no point, period.
As much as I enjoy all 4 movies, I do agree that the first one is the best for its near perfect mixture of a dark storyline and a bit of humor on top. One never outshines the other. As the films went on, however (especially with the introduction of Leo), the franchise got lighter and lighter. Again, they were still entertaining and had some memorable villains, but it just felt that they lost their teeth as they went along.
@@tyrannozillaLeo's totally superfluous, unquestionably.
@@matthewdaley746 "Okay, okay, okay."
@tyrannozilla Later films especially, unquestionably.
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Holy Shit.. Lethal Weapon 5 directed by Gibson would be fuckin amazingg.
Or completely disastrous, unquestionably.
He hasn’t had a bad movie yet…as a director
@@MikeSmith-rh5gcApocalypto declares otherwise, unquestionably.
I'd personally prefer Black to do it. He deserves his uncut vision at last.
@davidjames579 Earned his feature, unquestionably.
The other reason Warners fast tracked Lethal 4 was that they had The Avengers lined up as their big money maker of Summer 1998. That shot in the Summer of 97. By the autumn, WB had seen an assembly edit and ordered a drastic cutting out of footage because they realized the movie was most certainly going to bomb or very much underperform, even after further editing. To offset their outgoings, WB needed a guaranteed hit for Summer 98. This is when they approached Donner and asked if they through enough money at him could he get LW4 written, shot and edited in time for July 98. Donner then pulled off the impossible, commencing shooting in Jan 98. As you say Mel Gibson fully milked the situation getting paid the most an actor had up to then. Interestingly his friend Robert Downey Jr did the same thing when Marvel pulled a last minute U-turn to make Captain America- Civil War after DC announced Batman V Superman. As your video shows a script for LW4 is dated May 1998, TWO MONTHS before its theatrical release.
The Avengers released in August. As expected it bombed with the critics, and audiences. Not least due to some drastic editing to try and get the runtime down to ensure more screenings. Years later it's director offered to mount a re-edit to put the film back to its original length so it at least made sense. He said he'd do it for FREE just so people could see how his film should have been. But having made so little from cinema and home media sales, WB refused as they couldn't see any point.
I always wanted a crossover between Lethal Weapon and Rush Hour.
Yeah we all know which version of Lethal Weapon 5 would be the best! Plot is about tapping tainted water or something
Attempt# ??? to get you to cover Spider-Man: No Way Home
Eventually
Thoroughly enjoyed all your content this year, here's to 2025 and more amazing videos
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Too old for this shiat ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Very funny that Gibson rejected a Shane Black written & directed LW5 since in the 2010s he attached himself to a project that was going to be directed by Black called The Cold Warrior about an ex-Cold War spy coming out of retirement to help with a mission involving an enemy from his past.
Rejection's absolutely ridiculous, unquestionably.
I really hope Lethal Weapon 5 happens... as they say it will... However... the more they delay the start of filming... the less likely it is to happen... for obvious reasons...
"Service revolver"
Yeah, no.
Eh i prefer the versions done by the owners of Paddy's Pub! 😂😂
Anyone notice the dude getting smashed by the car as it came out the building?
Wait, Die Hard with a Vengeance was originally intended for Brandon Lee?! Holy schbikies, i wish i could have seen that version. That could have been awesome!
Original still terrific, unquestionably.
The original plans for deadpool 3
I own the Lethal Weapon movies and I like the show.
Wait, Chief Lazarus isn’t canon?!
In some respects, I agree Lethal Weapon shouldn't have gone past 2 movies. I mean, no disrespect as I enjoy 3 and 4 in their own way and their own showcases of the changes and drama of life, but I never felt they had much reason to exist in comparison to 1 and 2. Those first two also had a grit to them that made them stand out, and it steadily got aired out the further the films went along. I can see some really jelling with that, but for some reason, I both understand it, yet found it much less interesting to watch because of it.
Plus, they turned, Martin Riggs, into a superhero, and, wasted a pair of great villains, Plot Armor, has made the fourth film, basically unwatchable.
@@matthewdaley746 To this day, the climax of 4 is still utterly unbelievable. Even with Riggs being a mad cap, he can't do it the same way without either killing himself or dealing damage that wouldn't heal right again.
@motherplayer The only thing that could have, possibly, remotely, saved that film would have been the two leads defeating the villain, but, at the cost of their own lives, the 1987 versions of these characters would have had zero chance, period.
I would love to see another sequel, but they're getting too old for that shit.
only seen 4, best 1
Did...did I just see Gough and Millar's name on LW4's script?! 😂 Well, that woulda put Smallville in a whole new light (or LW4).
Hollywood is weird. I kinda wanna see Shane Black's version of LW1 and 2, uncut, unadulterated, now. And given how much I don't like Iron Man 3, that thought...scares me.
But yeah, there's no denying the massive change in tone between early and later LW movies, and though I love both, I prefer the more serious tone. The later films are at their best when they drop the comedy and go full action film. Made me love Rene Russo, too. (But I'm glad they didn't kill off Riggs. Why is Hollywood so bad at compromising between these things?!)
P.S. Not NEARLY enough people talk about The Last Boy Scout. I didn't realize that was Shane Black, but it makes sense.
Studio trashed it, unquestionably.
Given how Black is associated with the Lethal Weapon brand, it is funny how often his work has been altered. Joel Silver loved the original spec script from a nobody so much he bought it for $250,000 Then proceeded to hire a director known for lighter fare, who then had it filleted of it's harsh USP by another writer (Jeffrey Boam). Same thing happens on LW2. Then amusingly as soon as Boam has a blank page to write 3, Donner finds it too dark and hires the script doctor from the last film to water it down.
Then Black, by now a superstar screenwriter is offered a record breaking 2 million for his new script, The Last Boy Scout. He decides to instead take WB's lower offer of 1.75 million, which is still record breaking. Because it means Joel Silver can produce it, and Black still has a great friendship with him even after LW1 and 2. Then guess what, same thing happens again, and LBS has a lot of its original darker script re-written! After this Black is hired by Silver to contribute to Last Action Hero. His script is then written over by several writers after that. Black can't catch a break, so retreats from screenwriting. Much later he makes an attempt to do things his way by not just writing Kiss, Kiss, Bang, Bang but directing it. And who does he hire as his producer? Joel Silver! The two remain friends to this day, and Silver produces his later film The Nice Guys.
I would have prefered part 4 having Neo Nazis as the villains. They should have gone with Riggs and Rianne ending up together in the 3rd film.
Rianne's incorrigibly insufferable, unquestionably.
Leave the Lethal Weapon movies alone!!!! They got lucky that they made 4 and they all don't suck. Let it stay that way.
oh to have a dollar every time WB, Fox, or Marvel change or scrap a script because it's tOo DaRk. They need to grow tf up man
Why so they can both say in Lethal Weapon 5 I'm getting too old for this shit😂
Seriously too obvious, unquestionably.
You can’t never kill Martin Biggs
A depressing fact, unquestionably.
But you can kill Martin Riggs.
@davidjames579 Was originally intended, unquestionably.
I think it’s fair to say Lethal Weapon 5 won’t happen.
I entirely agree, unquestionably.
Riggs was still a lethal weapon for the entire series, just because he didn’t wanna kill himself after the first one doesn’t mean the lethal weapon title lost its meaning.
Films lost energy, unquestionably.
Well the first there "Lethal Weapon" movies were sweet , and like they not comedy movies . Well at least not the first one that is , and I never watched the tv show .Like my bad , since seems I did want childhood wrecked by a sitcom .Which those movies are not , well maybe the fourth one for sure , cause Chris Rock was playing Chris Rock in it .And he never played himself in "New Jack City " .
I can't sit through 16 minutes of this
Try 1 min today. 2 mins tomorrow. 3 the day after.........
@davidjames579 I.. I just can't..
A plot with native americans stealing water would have been more exciting
cops can retire after 20-25 years....
LW5 will never happen, Gibson has burnt his bridges in Hollywood due to his behaviour, being relegated to doing DTV fair for the past decade and WB aren’t interested and ultimately they own the franchise.
Warners were considering him to direct the sequel to Suicide Squad, so maybe not.
First two films was great......3rd was good but the lesser out the franchise and the 4th was good and better than 3......3rd film luna shouldve died to continue riggs rage on the 4th keep riggs edge matta fact start the movie off with riggs being a drunk then we see his redemption as the movie goes on still with jet li in it of course the action stays the same wit dark tone.....riggs gets a new love interest and at the end of the movie she actually survives and shows riggs the pregnancy test
It’s a magazine not a clip homie
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Lethal Weapon 2 was easily the best one. 3 and 4 were pointless and disappointing.
2 is great but 3 is decent. 4 is fan service, end.....
Using AI to create a thumbnail when there are literally thousands of images of Mel and Danny from the Lethal Weapon series is embarrassing. Do better.
It’s not AI. Stay in school.
Not as embarrassing as your comment.
We need Lethal Weapon 5 !!!!!
Can you do? Sam Raimi's unrealized projects en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Raimi's_unrealized_projects for next year
I can look into it
@@Bulletsandblockbusters I am so excited
No Dick Donner. No Joel Silver. Im good.
I'm indescribably perfect, unquestionably.