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Lethal Weapon (franchise)
''Lethal Weapon'' is an American buddy cop Action film#Action-comedy, 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 Lethal Weapon (TV series), 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 #Proposed fifth film, fifth installment had been in talks and development since 2007. Films ''Lethal Weapon'' (1987) Anxious with age and retirement, homicide detective Roger Murtaugh (Danny Glover) is partnered with young and suicidal narcotics officer Martin Riggs (Mel Gibson). Together, they work ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shane Black
Shane Black (born December 16, 1961) is an American screenwriter, film director, and actor, known for his distinctive style of Action film, action and action comedy films. He is the original creator of the ''Lethal Weapon (franchise), Lethal Weapon'' franchise, and has also written such films as ''The Monster Squad'' (1987), ''The Last Boy Scout'' (1991), ''Last Action Hero'' (1993), and ''The Long Kiss Goodnight'' (1996). As an actor, Black is best known for his role as List of Predator characters#Hawkins, Hawkins in ''Predator (film), Predator'' (1987). He made his directorial debut with the film ''Kiss Kiss Bang Bang'' in 2005. Black went on to write and direct ''Iron Man 3'' (2013), ''The Nice Guys'' (2016), and ''The Predator (film), The Predator'' (2018). Early life and education Black was born and raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the son of Paul and Patricia Ann Black. His father was in the printing business, and helped Black develop his interest in hardboiled fiction ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Donner
Richard Donner (born Richard Donald Schwartzberg; April 24, 1930 – July 5, 2021) was an American film director, producer and actor. Described as "one of Hollywood's most reliable makers of action blockbusters", Donner directed some of the most financially successful films of the 1970s and 1980s. His 50-year career crossed genres and influenced trends among filmmakers across the world. Donner began his career in 1957 as a television director. In the 1960s, he directed episodes of the series ''The Rifleman'', ''The Man from U.N.C.L.E.'', ''The Fugitive (1963 TV series), The Fugitive'', ''The Twilight Zone (1959 TV series), The Twilight Zone'', ''The Banana Splits'', and many others. Donner made his film debut with the low-budget aviation drama ''X-15 (film), X-15'' in 1961, but had his critical and commercial breakthrough with the horror film ''The Omen'' in 1976. He directed the landmark superhero film ''Superman (1978 film), Superman'' in 1978, which provided an inspiration f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mitchell Ryan
Mitchell Ryan (January 11, 1934 – March 4, 2022) was an American actor. His six decades of television credits, he is best known for playing Burke Devlin in the 1960s gothic subculture, gothic soap opera ''Dark Shadows'', and later for his co-starring role as Greg Montgomery (Thomas Gibson)'s father Edward Montgomery on ''Dharma & Greg''. He also played the villainous General Peter McAllister in the 1987 buddy cop action film ''Lethal Weapon.'' Early life Mitchell Ryan was born on January 11, 1934, in Cincinnati, Ohio, and raised in Louisville, Kentucky. His father was a salesman and his mother was a writer. He served in the United States Navy during the Korean War. Career A life member of the Actors Studio, Ryan's Broadway theatre, Broadway theatre credits include ''Wait Until Dark'', ''Medea (play), Medea'', and ''The Price (play), The Price''. His off-Broadway credits include ''Antony and Cleopatra'' (1963) and ''The Price'' (1979). Ryan was an original cast member of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jackie Swanson
Jackie Swanson (born June 25, 1963) is an American actress. She is best known for her role on the American sitcom ''Cheers'' as Kelly Gaines the rich, simple love interest of Woody Boyd and as Amanda Hunsaker in the first ''Lethal Weapon'' movie. Early life, family and education Jackie Swanson was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan. She is one of four children of high school sweethearts Scott B. and Ruth K. (née Lamb) Swanson: two other daughters, Becky and Lori; and a son, Peter. Becky, who died in 2011, was also one of Jackie's closest friends. Levine was a writer on ''Cheers''. The family resided in Cadillac, Michigan. Jackie attended Northern Michigan University, but she left to pursue an acting career, much to her parents' chagrin. Career In 1985, Swanson made her professional debut in the Prince music video "Raspberry Beret" as the girl wearing the raspberry-colored beret who hands Prince his guitar at the beginning of the song. She recalled being paid about $35 for the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mel Gibson
Mel Columcille Gerard Gibson (born January 3, 1956) is an American actor and filmmaker. The recipient of List of awards and nominations received by Mel Gibson, multiple accolades, he is known for directing historical films as well for his action hero roles, particularly his breakout role as Max Rockatansky in the first three films of the Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction, post-apocalyptic series ''Mad Max'' (1979–1985) and as Martin Riggs in the buddy cop film, buddy cop series ''Lethal Weapon (franchise), Lethal Weapon'' (1987–1998). Born in Peekskill, New York, Gibson moved with his parents to Sydney, Australia, when he was 12 years old. He studied acting at the National Institute of Dramatic Art, where he starred opposite Judy Davis in a production of ''Romeo and Juliet''. During the 1980s, he founded Icon Entertainment, a production company. Director Peter Weir cast him as one of the leads in the World War I drama ''Gallipoli (1981 film), Gallipoli'' (1981), whi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Danny Glover
Danny Glover ( ; born July 22, 1946) is an American actor, producer, and political activist. Over his career he has received List of awards and nominations received by Danny Glover, numerous accolades including the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the NAACP's NAACP Image Award – President's Award, President's Award, as well as nominations for five Emmy Awards and four Grammy Awards. Glover made his film acting debut in ''Escape from Alcatraz (film), Escape from Alcatraz'' in 1979. He rose to fame in the late 1980s for playing Roger Murtaugh in the ''Lethal Weapon (franchise), Lethal Weapon'' film series. Glover's other notable films include ''Places in the Heart'' (1984), ''The Color Purple (1985 film), The Color Purple'' (1985), ''Witness (1985 film), Witness'' (1985), ''To Sleep with Anger'' (1990), ''Grand Canyon (1991 film), Grand Canyon'' (1991), ''Bopha!'' (1993), ''Angels in the Outfield (1994 film), Angels in the O ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miles Millar
Miles Millar ( ; born 1967) is an Australian-British screenwriter, showrunner, producer, creator, developer, and director. He is best known as the creator of Netflix's 2022 live-action comedy horror series ''Wednesday,'' the Tim Burton helmed '' Addams Family'' spin-off. It holds the record as the most-watched English language series in the history of Netflix. Alongside his longtime writing/producing partner Alfred Gough, Millar also created, produced, wrote, and developed other television programs like The WB/The CW's action-adventure Superman-prequel television hit series ''Smallville'', AMC's 2015 wuxia-influenced dystopian television series '' Into the Badlands'' and MTV's 2016 epic fantasy drama television series ''The Shannara Chronicles'' (based on '' The Sword of Shannara Trilogy'' book trilogy by Terry Brooks). He also co-wrote other feature films like Tom Dey's ''Shanghai Noon'' and its sequel ''Shanghai Knights'', Sam Raimi's ''Spider-Man 2'' and Rob Cohen's blockbu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alfred Gough
Alfred Gough ( ; born August 22, 1967) is an American screenwriter, producer, writer, director, showrunner and creator. He is the developer of The WB/The CW's Superman-prequel television series ''Smallville (TV series), Smallville''. Alongside longtime writing/producing partner Miles Millar, Gough co-created other television programs like AMC (TV channel), AMC's 2015 wuxia-influenced dystopian television series ''Into the Badlands (TV series), Into the Badlands'', MTV's 2016 epic fantasy television series ''The Shannara Chronicles'' (based on ''The Sword of Shannara Trilogy'' book trilogy by Terry Brooks) and Netflix's ''Wednesday (TV series), Wednesday'', the Tim Burton-helmed ''Addams Family'' spin-off. Among his feature film credits he wrote or produced are ''Shanghai Noon'' and its sequel ''Shanghai Knights'', ''Spider-Man 2'', ''The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor'', ''Herbie: Fully Loaded'', ''Hannah Montana: The Movie'' and Burton's ''Beetlejuice Beetlejuice''. Early life ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jonathan Lemkin
Jonathan Lemkin is an American screenwriter. He has written for the television series ''21 Jump Street'', ''Beverly Hills, 90210'', and ''Hill Street Blues''. He has also written the films '' Showdown in Little Tokyo'' (uncredited, production script), ''Lethal Weapon 4'', '' Red Planet'', and adapted '' The Devil's Advocate'' and '' Shooter'' from novels. Lemkin was the first (of many) writers who wrote unused scripts for the defunct film '' Superman Lives''. He has also written a screenplay for the Vince Flynn Vincent Joseph Flynn (April 6, 1966 – June 19, 2013) was an American author of political thriller novels featuring the fictional assassin Mitch Rapp. He was a story consultant for the fifth season of the television series ''24 (television), 24'' ... novel '' Consent to Kill'' which is currently being shopped around. Lemkin and actress Kiersten Warren-Acevedo were married in 1990 and divorced in 2005. External links * Living people American male screenwriters ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Channing Gibson
Richard Channing Gibson is an American screenwriter and producer. He worked in both capacities with ''St. Elsewhere'' and ''NYPD Blue''. He is one of the creators of the drama series '' Murder One'' and ''The Byrds of Paradise''. Career Gibson began working in television as a writer on ABC drama series ''Family'' in 1978. He wrote the fourth season episode "Magic" and the story for later fourth season episode "An Apple for the Teacher". He moved on to write for ''Eight Is Enough''. He wrote the fourth season episode "Memories" and returned for the fifth-season episode "Welcome to Memorial Dr. Bradford". He began writing for the NBC medical drama ''St. Elsewhere'' in 1984. He wrote the third-season episode "My Aim Is True". He returned to co-write the fourth season episodes "Haunted" and "Sanctuary" in 1985. Gibson and his co-writers were nominated for the Emmy Award for outstanding writing for a drama series for their work on "Haunted". Gibson and his co-writers were nominated ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Mark Kamen
Robert Mark Kamen (born October 9, 1947) is an American screenwriter, best known as the creator of ''The Karate Kid'' franchise as well as for his later collaborations with French filmmaker Luc Besson, which include the screenplay for ''The Fifth Element'' (originally devised by Besson) and the '' Transporter'' and '' Taken'' franchises. He now produces wine from his vineyards near Sonoma, California. Early life and education Kamen was born in 1947. He grew up in the Bronx in New York City. He graduated from New York University in 1969. He received his Ph.D. in American Studies from the University of Pennsylvania. Career Kamen is a frequent collaborator of French writer and director Luc Besson, who co-created ''The Fifth Element'', ''The Transporter'', and the ''Taken'' series. The two first worked together on the Natalie Portman and Jean Reno thriller '' The Professional''. After the success of ''The Fifth Element'', Besson invited Kamen to join him in his goal of creating ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Warren Murphy
Warren Burton Murphy (September 13, 1933 – September 4, 2015) was an American author, best known as the co-creator of '' The Destroyer'' series, the basis for the film '' Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins''. Early life Murphy was born in Jersey City, New Jersey, on September 13, 1933. He worked in journalism and politics until launching the Destroyer series with Richard Sapir in 1971. A screenwriter (''Lethal Weapon 2'', '' The Eiger Sanction'') as well as a novelist, his work won a dozen national awards, including multiple Edgars and Shamuses. He lectured at many colleges and universities. Writing Murphy was one of the authors of the screenplay for '' The Eiger Sanction'' in 1975, and also co-wrote (with series creator Shane Black) the original story for ''Lethal Weapon 2''. He is the author of the ''Trace'' and ''Digger'' series. With Molly Cochran, he completed two books of a planned trilogy revolving around the character "The Grandmaster": ''The Grandmaster'' (1984) a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
