The move comes after the project was put in limbo when director Richard Donner, who helmed all of the 'Weapon' movies since their inception in 1987, died in July.
movies since their inception in 1987, died in July. Donner, at 91, was working on mounting the fifth installment.
The fifth outing has been in development on and off for years, with screenwriters coming and going. Richard Wenk, who wrote the Denzel Washington-starringRideback, the company run by Dan Lin and Jonathan Eirich, is producing. This changing of the guard had been in the works for months and was blessed, if not instigated, by Lauren Shuler Donner, the wife of Richard Donner.“He was developing the screenplay and he got pretty far along with it. And he said to me one day, ‘Listen kid, if I kick the bucket you will do it.’ And I said: ‘Shut up.’” According to London’s The Sun, which“But he did indeed pass away. But he did ask me to do it and at the time I didn’t say anything.More to come.
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