15 Casting Suggestions for Riggs and Murtaugh in the Lethal Weapon Remake
As detailed in this morning's edition of The Broadsheet, Hollywood went remake crazy while you were sleeping, with planned relaunches of Lethal Weapon, Westworld, The Wild Bunch and Annie all presumably coming to a theater near you in the next five years. Nothing there should inherently surprise you -- this is Hollywood after all, where announcing remakes is otherwise known as a weekday -- but it's still a bit demoralizing. With that in mind, let's remoralize! (Invented word!) Ahead, Movieline offers 15 duos who might make the planned relaunch of Lethal Weapon almost tolerable. Suggestions welcome.
[Please note: This list is a mix of absurd ridiculousness and "I would totally see that!" wishful thinking. Not that you needed that disclaimer, but anyway. There it is.]
· Chris Pine and Denzel Washington
· Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker
· Jason Sudeikis and Jay Pharoah
· Robert Pattinson and Peter O'Toole
· Amy Poehler and Helen Mirren
· Christian Bale and Jamie Foxx
· Chiwetel Ejiofor and Jeff Bridges
· Johnny Depp and Angelina Jolie
· Kiefer Sutherland and Forest Whitaker
· Taylor Lautner and Tom Cruise
· Jesse Eisenberg and Bill Murray
· Colin Hanks and Bradley Whitford
· Ricky Gervais and Joan Rivers
· Natalie Portman and Mila Kunis
· Mel Gibson and Danny Glover
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Can we work Donald Glover in here somewhere?
Andrew Garfield and Donald Glover?
They should mix it up, and have the black guy be the young insane loose cannon, and the white guy the straight-laced, too-old-for-this-shit, 3-days-til-retirement cop.
Or, they just don't make this movie.
I'm biased (because, duh, I wrote this), but my favorite is Amy Poehler and Helen Mirren. Let's totally mix that shit up.
Jaden Smith and Elle Fanning.
It won't work without the OG's...Keep close to what mad it BIG! Bring back the Kids...All grown up now...Bring D Hines Murtaugh's son to play Murtaugh...He's fine and talented with skills...
I like this idea only if they bring back Mel Gibson as the straight-laced white guy and Ludacris.
Tilda Swinton and Emma Stone.
Yes! I knew you'd pick the right partner for him.
Mo'Nique and Naomi Watts or, if they want to go "young", Gabourey Sidibe and Blake Lively.
I wonder what Shane Black has to say about this. Anyway, I don't see how it's possible to recreate the magic of the first two Weapon movies. It's like trying to remake the original Die Hard.
Westworld could use a remake. Don't care about the other two movies much.
Here would be my picks: Matt Damon or Colin Farrell and Samuel L. Jackson
Colin Farrell as Riggs and Ving Rhames as Murtaugh
Samuel L Jackson and Hugh Jackman
how about the guys from psych guys James Roday and Dulé Hill they would be great
Ryan Reynolds and Denzel Washington