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

A few months ago, Mel Gibson confirmed that he will be directing Lethal Weapon 5, taking over for Richard Donner who passed away while the film was in development. He’s also working on his sequel to Passion of the Christ.

When asked about these two films during a recent interview with CB, Gibson said: "I don't know, and that's that's the funny thing. I mean, there's various obstacles to getting any film up on its feet, and not just budgetary, but there's like, there's 1,000,001 reason why something goes and why it doesn't.

“So it's really kind of a crapshoot at this point what goes first and which came first, whether it's the chicken or the egg."

So, it seems that both of those projects are still very much up in the air. But, it sounds like Gibson is still planning on directing both of them.

When previously talking about Lethal Weapon, Gibson talked about the process of developing the screenplay, which Donner started before his passing. "He had gotten a fair way into writing the screenplay and we've used what was there. We kept kind of poking at it, working it and I'm pretty happy with it, it's good, I had a lot of fun doing it.”

Gibson previously shared that the film had “a really good screenplay” and “they had a really good template.” He also said: “I had the honor of sitting down, after Richard passed away, with the writer and doing a couple more drafts and trying to do it in the spirit of what we thought Donner might [want] because I knew the guy so well. We tried to get that flavor, and we were pretty happy with what we came up with.”

Gibson recently directed the Mark Wahlberg thriller Flight Plan and he stars in the family adventure horror film Monster Summer.