Demnach scheint die Hoffnung auf ein Lethal Weapon 5 sinnlos zu sein und die Serie wurde zu den Akten gelegt.
[..] Speaking of ‘could put them back in the good books’ offers, Gibson is said to have recently knocked back an offer to reprise his role as that law-enforcing loose cannon, Martin Riggs, in a Lethal Weapon 5. “Oh no, I don’t want to go there again…oh boy was that done to death. I just want to do things that really give me a kick”, he says of the series that put him on the Hollywood map. Director Richard Donner is said to have an idea for a Lethal Weapon 5 that would be set within a 24-hour time period "For Lethal Weapon 5 it would have to be a story that would be worthwhile, but I think maybe there is something out there”, Donner said. “I could do one [this film] tomorrow”, Donner said a couple of years back, later adding that he’d like to put “the franchise to bed properly”. [..]