Lethal Weapon 5 - Mel says he is too old for that Shit!

/film have the news that original series director Richard Donner (via: the Los Angeles Times) has said that Gibson turned down the idea for Lethal Weapon 5 and the project is dead.

“Mel turned it down. I would like to think that Mel turned it down because I wasn’t involved. Knowing Mel, I would like to think that. Would that be the kind of thing he does? It sure would be,” Donner said. “It’s too bad, actually, because Channing Gibson, who wrote the fourth one, and Mike Riva, a designer on three of them, and myself and Derek [Hoffman, an associate at The Donner Company] had an incredibly strong story for the fifth movie. But we weren’t given the opportunity and I think maybe I could have convinced Mel to do it. But Warners chose to go with Joel Silver.”

Donner concluded “Yes, the project is pretty much dead in the water unless someone had the sense to come to me.”

So that appears to be the end of that. What do you think?
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