Warner Bros. to Reboot Lethal Weapon

[Wolfwood]

I say we do a role reversal!

Micheal Jai White as Riggs and Harrison Ford as Murtaugh. You know you can hear Ford saying "I'm too old for this ****." In your head right now.

 

[Sawyer]

The only way I'll be happy with this is if they let the Always Sunny cast make it.

^ What he said.

 

[GREEN =w= DAY]

yeah, i would only agree to this reboot if the It's Always Sunny gang do it

other than that, to hell with this reboot. there's no need for it

 

[dude stannis]

He's not a bad actor. He just does what he gets paid to do and is good at doing it. Being a badass action star. He just he just doesn't have what it takes for Riggs. Statham, as much as I like him, just feels like the flavor of the month action star to me. Gibson wasn't that. You need a real actor to pull this off.

I agree that Riggs needs a real actor and that Statham is not the man for the role. However, I don't think he's just a flavour of the month, that's a label for Sam Worthington, Channing Tatum and their black hole of charisma ilk. If a guy can make a Paul W.S. Anderson film entertaining, then he's graduated from 'flavour of the month'.

Besides, you know when Luc Besson, Sylvester Stallone and Bruce Willis are singing your praises, you're doing something right in the action genre.

Statham should play Mr. Joshua.

A Werner Herzog Film.

Lethal Weapon.

Nicolas Cage as Martin Riggs.
Christian Bale as Roger Murtaugh

 

[Wolfwood]

I say we do a role reversal!

Micheal Jai White as Riggs and Harrison Ford as Murtaugh. You know you can hear Ford saying "I'm too old for this ****." In your head right now.

Also, bring Garey Busey back, but this time make him the Captain.

 

[Doctor Jones]

I agree that Riggs needs a real actor and that Statham is not the man for the role. However, I don't think he's just a flavour of the month, that's a label for Sam Worthington, Channing Tatum and their black hole of charisma ilk. If a guy can make a Paul W.S. Anderson film entertaining, then he's graduated from 'flavour of the month'.

Besides, you know when Luc Besson, Sylvester Stallone and Bruce Willis are singing your praises, you're doing something right in the action genre.

Statham should play Mr. Joshua.

A Werner Herzog Film.

Lethal Weapon.

Nicolas Cage as Martin Riggs.
Christian Bale as Roger Murtaugh

He's certainly better, and not flavor of the month. He has lasted alot longer than that. Wrong word choice. I simply meant he seems to be the go to guy for action roles lately. He's not interesting enough for Riggs.

Gary Busey was pretty much the star villain of the first. I don't even remember the main bad guy's name. The villains in the second were better. That South African bastard.

I'd rather stick to a black actor to play Murtagh. The twist on the races is interesting, but I would love to see Bale play Riggs. Look at his long hair now. It should look like that. He needs long hair. Mullets are out, but the long hair gives Riggs that edge.

 

[Spider-ManHero12]

Lethal Weapon worked because of how well the actors fit with eachother. I can't picture anybody else in the roles, I'm sorry.

 

[daywalker2007]

the only way i could accept a reboot would be if Christian Bale played Riggs and they get a decent actor alongside him.

you need someone crazy to do that role.

 

[dark_b]

but do you think its possible for Bale to have chemistry with another male action in an action comedy movie with funny lines?

 

[conan69]

One of the stupidest ideas ever. On par with the remake idea for The Warriors with no guns and wirefu

 

[Paste Pot Pete]

You don't "reboot" Lethal Weapon.

If you make a buddy cop action comedy that doesn't star Mel Gibson & Danny Glover, then you've made a buddy cop action comedy. That doesn't make it Lethal Weapon, even if you decide to name the characters Riggs & Murtaugh.

There's hundreds of buddy cop action comedies. There's only one (or four, heh) Lethal Weapon.

Can't we just say that Cop Out was the Lethal Weapon remake, it came out, it stunk, it's done and we don't have to hear these threats again for another 20 years?

 

[Catman]

Can't we just say that Cop Out was the Lethal Weapon remake, it came out, it stunk, it's done and we don't have to hear these threats again for another 20 years?

Speaking of Cop Out, that Bruce Willis/Damon Wayans film, The Last Boy Scout, was basically a Lethal Weapon clone. WB should just remake that instead.

 

[kvz5]

the only way i could accept a reboot would be if Christian Bale played Riggs and they get a decent actor alongside him.

you need someone crazy to do that role.

This scene from Harsh Times comes to mind for some reason.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w09rqkY0hbg

 

[dude stannis]

Speaking of Cop Out, that Bruce Willis/Damon Wayans film, The Last Boy Scout, was basically a Lethal Weapon clone. WB should just remake that instead.

NEVER! That movie is just as much a classic as Lethal Weapon.

Another reason Lethal Weapon being remade is useless:

 

[MadVillainy]

Another reason Lethal Weapon being remade is useless:

 

[raybia]

This is the mother's of bad ideas and I would still support it if WB did one final movie with Gibson and Glover and have them go out Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid style.

 

[bullets]

This scene from Harsh Times comes to mind for some reason.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w09rqkY0hbg

I love that movie , lol. I don't see Bale doing anything like it for awhile though.

 

[antsman41]

Hell, they even tried it with Harrison Ford and Josh Hartnett haha

 

[Joker's Lackey]

I'm lost here. I can't see why WB would do this. Mel and Danny made those characters what they are. It will be hard for anyone to step in those shoe's. They would need some serious solid Actors, Directors, and a really good script writer. How much money would WB put behind this?

 

[Catman]

NEVER! That movie is just as much a classic as Lethal Weapon.

No, it isn't. It's a major Lethal Weapon clone. And it infamously under-performed at the box office after WB paid Shane Black a ridiculous amount of money for the script. That movie was so un-original that Bruce Willis basically played a drunk John McClane.

I've always been a firm believer that studios should only remake movies that sucked but showed potential. The Last Boy Scout is a good example of that. If they had removed all the gimmicks it would have been a fine action flick.

 

[dark_b]

i thought it was a movie where Bruce played John McClane drunk.

 

[Catman]

It is possible that Bruce Willis was drunk the entire movie.

 

[dude stannis]

No, it isn't. It's a major Lethal Weapon clone. And it infamously under-performed at the box office after WB paid Shane Black a ridiculous amount of money for the script. That movie was so un-original that Bruce Willis basically played a drunk John McClane.

I've always been a firm believer that studios should only remake movies that sucked but showed potential. The Last Boy Scout is a good example of that. If they had removed all the gimmicks it would have been a fine action flick.

We're going to have to agree to disagree, I think that's some of the best work to come out of Tony Scott, Bruce Willis and Shane Black. It's as much a clone of Lethal Weapon as Lethal Weapon is a clone of 48 HRS.

 

[The Caped Knight]

Lethal Weapon worked because of how well the actors fit with each other. I can't picture anybody else in the roles, I'm sorry.

Exactly

 

[Lone]

Fassbender is a very good suggestion.