US: Lethal Weapon

Azza · 17 May 2016 at 19:10

Lethal Weapon - Coming Fall 2016

Clayne Crawford as Martin Riggs
Damon Wayans Sr. as Roger Murtaugh

Azza · 17 May 2016 at 19:12

So I just started watching the film and decided to see who plays Joshua as I couldn't remember and the first thing on Google is the trailer...

Wut?!? Any way it looks like it may be okay going by the trailer.

chroniclard · 17 May 2016 at 19:16

mmmmmmm

NexusK · 17 May 2016 at 19:16

I think i'll wait and see what the reception is after a few episodes or so. TV adaptations of movies haven't been doing well lately and just get cancelled.

XPE · 17 May 2016 at 19:33

Reminds me of the Rush Hour TV show.

v0n · 17 May 2016 at 22:11

I'm not sure showrunners understood what made Lethal Weapon work. First - it's a story about friendship with crime in the background not the other way round. It won't work in a standard cop+magical sidekick solving crime of the week setup.

Second. It's not just a story about white cop/black cop, it's based around younger trigger happy suicidal nutter and an old school, cranky, "too old for this ****" pre-retirement desk jockey who constantly gets yanked along for a mad ride by crazy antics of the former. Clayne Crawford makes terrible Riggs but also Roger's character deserved at least someone like Wendell Pierce or Andre Braugher.

ElliorR · 17 May 2016 at 22:27

If this is only a 100th as bad as it looks then it'll still be total ****.

Cosimo · 18 May 2016 at 07:58

They'll never come close to the highs reached by Mel Gibson and Danny Glover almost thirty years ago. Looks like carp and probably will be carp.

R3X · 18 May 2016 at 12:38

I thought the trailer looked good, I gave up after 2-3 eps of rush hour but this one looks a bit better and more funnier.

I agree its impossible or hard to mess with a classic though !

MR_Punk · 24 May 2016 at 20:40

It's never going to be as good as the films.

I only rematched them all the a couple of weeks ago so its strange to me that I have just seen this.

Mynight · 25 May 2016 at 02:39

It looked good right up until the end scene.

Cant be any worse than Rush Hour.

TheVoice · 25 May 2016 at 17:51

This really is the year of old movies revived as TV shows and old TV shows being re-launched or spun-off.

Kainz · 26 May 2016 at 04:59

I can see this doing about as well as the Knight Rider TV show a few years back...

Flibster · 28 May 2016 at 00:46

What the utter parp is that? :confused:

Haze · 28 May 2016 at 09:37

+1 to can not be worse than Rush Hour, managed 3ep before i gave up on that

wolfie138 · 1 Jun 2016 at 13:32

why don't they redo/reshow Freebie & The Bean?

Flibster · 25 Sep 2016 at 13:33

Hey... It's not terrible!

:eek:

JBod · 26 Sep 2016 at 01:33

Genuinely impressed by the Pilot, possibly because I had the bar set very low. I suspect they took a long time with the casting to get the buddy cop vibe working well.

v0n · 26 Sep 2016 at 02:08

Darn, Damon Wayans looks young for 56 years old.

Amp34 · 26 Sep 2016 at 03:33

That was my thinking! He looks about 30.

And the guy playing Riggs just doesn't seem right. The scene in the trailer with the bank robber - just doesn't give off that suicidal feel that Gibson did with Riggs.

I assume it's not on a streaming channel yet but real tv?