Mel Gibson Offers Update on LETHAL WEAPON 5 - "It's The Chicken or the Egg"

A fewer months ago, Mel Gibson confirmed that he will beryllium directing Lethal Weapon 5, taking complete for Richard Donner who passed distant while nan movie was successful development. He’s besides moving connected his sequel to Passion of nan Christ.

When asked astir these 2 films during a caller question and reply pinch CB, Gibson said: "I don't know, and that's that's nan funny thing. I mean, there's various obstacles to getting immoderate movie up connected its feet, and not conscionable budgetary, but there's like, there's 1,000,001 logic why thing goes and why it doesn't.

“So it's really benignant of a crapshoot astatine this constituent what goes first and which came first, whether it's nan chickenhearted aliases nan egg."

So, it seems that some of those projects are still very overmuch up successful nan air. But, it sounds for illustration Gibson is still readying connected directing some of them.

When previously talking about Lethal Weapon, Gibson talked astir nan process of processing nan screenplay, which Donner started earlier his passing. "He had gotten a adjacent measurement into penning nan screenplay and we've utilized what was there. We kept benignant of poking astatine it, moving it and I'm beautiful happy pinch it, it's good, I had a batch of nosy doing it.”

Gibson previously shared that nan movie had “a really bully screenplay” and “they had a really bully template.” He besides said: “I had nan grant of sitting down, aft Richard passed away, pinch nan writer and doing a mates much drafts and trying to do it successful nan tone of what we thought Donner mightiness [want] because I knew nan feline truthful well. We tried to get that flavor, and we were beautiful happy pinch what we came up with.”

Gibson precocious directed nan Mark Wahlberg thriller Flight Plan and he stars successful nan family escapade scary movie Monster Summer.