Oy Vey! 'Lethal Weapon' to be Remade!?! - Sitcoms Online Message Boards

Brian Damage · 01-19-2011, 10:53 PM

EXCLUSIVE: Warner Bros and producer Joel Silver have set Will Beall to write Lethal Weapon, with a take that will relaunch the buddy cop series with a new cast. Beall, a former LA police officer who patrolled South Central and wrote the novel L.A. Rex, has seen his stock rise at the studio because of his script Gangster Squad, the period crime drama about an elite crime squad that fought against organized crime kingpins like Mickey Cohen. Zombieland helmer Ruben Fleischer has come aboard to direct that film.

Warner Bros has been messing around for some time with Lethal Weapon 5, with a treatment written by original scribe Shane Black. The plan was to bring the original team back, but schedules didn't match up and Mel Gibson's image has taken a self-inflicted beating. Beall pitched a take that maintains the tone of the original--a hard R-rated edgy street cop movie.

http://www.deadline.com/2011/01/warn...weapon-reboot/

Zebra 3 · 01-20-2011, 12:20 AM

Will watch it only if it's a sequel starring the original cast.

MrCleveland · 01-20-2011, 12:29 AM

This is REALLY getting ridiculous!

I swear to God...someone from Warner Bros. is probably going to remake "Ben Hur" or "Gone with the Wind"!

01-19-2011, 10:53 PM	#1
Brian Damage I'm Rich Bitch Forum Icon Join Date: Feb 03, 2002 Location: What Ain't No Country I Ever Heard Of...They Speak English in What? Posts: 63,107	Oy Vey! 'Lethal Weapon' to be Remade!?! EXCLUSIVE: Warner Bros and producer Joel Silver have set Will Beall to write Lethal Weapon, with a take that will relaunch the buddy cop series with a new cast. Beall, a former LA police officer who patrolled South Central and wrote the novel L.A. Rex, has seen his stock rise at the studio because of his script Gangster Squad, the period crime drama about an elite crime squad that fought against organized crime kingpins like Mickey Cohen. Zombieland helmer Ruben Fleischer has come aboard to direct that film. Warner Bros has been messing around for some time with Lethal Weapon 5, with a treatment written by original scribe Shane Black. The plan was to bring the original team back, but schedules didn't match up and Mel Gibson's image has taken a self-inflicted beating. Beall pitched a take that maintains the tone of the original--a hard R-rated edgy street cop movie. http://www.deadline.com/2011/01/warn...weapon-reboot/
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01-20-2011, 12:29 AM	#3
MrCleveland Drew Carey from Hell Forum Star Join Date: Nov 10, 2007 Location: The City of Cleveland, in The State of Cleveland, in The United States of Cleveland Posts: 14,225	FREE HAT!!! This is REALLY getting ridiculous! I swear to God...someone from Warner Bros. is probably going to remake "Ben Hur" or "Gone with the Wind"!
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