SUBMITTED BY Fred Hill

October 14, 2008 —

Richard Donner directed and produced all 4 Lethal Weapon movies so far and on the table to do the fifth. However he has been pushed out and Mel Gibson has walked away from the project. All of this combined pretty much has left the fifth movie dead in the water.

Richard Donner, who directed and produced all four "Lethal Weapon" films but found himself excluded from the recent plans to make a fifth, now says that his old friend Mel Gibson has walked away from the franchise revival.

"Mel turned it down," Donner said. "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."

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