10 Long-Awaited Movie Sequels That Will Literally Never Get Made

Lethal Weapon would set the bar for the buddy cop movie when it was released in 1987, and while the later sequels failed to recapture that lightning in a bottle and would lean heavier into the comedy aspects, the chemistry between leads Mel Gibson and Danny Glover makes the entire franchise as re-watchable today as it ever was, with Riggs and Murtaugh one of the action genre's all-time great double acts.

The fourth installment seemed to wrap things up pretty nicely back in 1998, but because this is modern Hollywood we're talking about, talk of a fifth outing for the veteran police officers occasionally bubbles to the surface. Several months ago, it was announced that the project was officially back in active development under the working title Lethal Finale, with Gibson and Glover both confirmed to return alongside director Richard Donner.

Murtaugh was claiming that he was too old for this sh*t 33 years ago, and with the so-called geri-action genre having peaked a while back, do we really need to see a 73 year-old Glover and a 64 year-old Gibson trying to relive their glory days with the 90 year-old Donner behind the camera for the first time since 2006?

Given that it took two decades to even get Lethal Weapon 5 into active development, as well as Gibson's jam-packed filming schedule as both an actor and director over the next couple of years, the chances of getting three of action cinema's elder statesmen back together again seems incredibly remote.