| Lethal Weapon | |
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| Created by | Shane Black |
| Original work | Lethal Weapon |
| Owner | Warner Bros. Pictures |
| Years | 1987–present |
| Films and television | |
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| Television series | Lethal Weapon (2016–2019) |
| Games | |
| Video game(s) | Lethal Weapon (1992) |
| Miscellaneous | |
| Theme park attraction(s) | Lethal Weapon – The Ride (1995–2012) |
| Pinball | Lethal Weapon 3 (1992) |
Lethal Weapon is an American buddy cop action-comedy media franchise created by Shane Black. It focuses on two Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) detectives, Martin Riggs and Roger Murtaugh. The franchise consists of a series of four films released between 1987 and 1998 and a television series which aired from 2016 to 2019. The four films were directed by Richard Donner and also share many of the same core cast members, while the television series is a reboot with different actors. Although the first film was not explicitly a comedy, the later films and the television series gradually became comedic in nature.
A proposed fifth installment had been in talks and development since 2007.
In September 2024, Mel Gibson attended FanX Comic Convention in Salt Lake City where he talked about the franchise and said "The fifth one is written, its been held up for one reason or another, there's always issues with these things...I think it's the best one of the series, it just won't get made for one reason or another, I just can't explain why". [[1]]