"I caught the trailer for Lethal Weapon 4 (before Lost in Space) the other
night. It's very similar to the 'teaser' trailer for LW3 in that it
basically shows the entire opening sequence of the film. For LW3, it
was the whole bomb defusing/building blowing up thing. This time, it's a
Gibson and Glover trying to stop a madman with a flame-thrower on the
streets of LA:
"The WB logo comes up, and we're immediately thrust into a full-scale war-zone with fire, smoke, helicopters and a guy with a flame-thrower
walking down the street. Cut to Murtaugh and Riggs, crouched behind a car in the middle of this mess. Glover typically looks scared as shit,
but Gibson is making light of things. He ends up convincing Glover to take off all of his clothes in order to distract the fire-wielding
psycho long enough for him to blast the fuel cannister on his back. Glover strips down to his red, heart-covered undees and starts to walk
out into the open. The maniac turns to blast him with flame, but stops distracted when he sees his attire. Gibson pounces up from behind the
car and open fire. A bullet pierces the canister and the guy goes 'Rocketeer-style' into the air and crashes into a fuel-tanker truck and
gas station. There's a massive (and pretty impressive) explosion as M and R run away from the flames and the airborne tanker.
"The Lethal Weapon logo comes up, and we cut to a scene at the police station where Gibson gets a promotion to Captain, followed by a rapid
succession of scenes showing the entire cast doing their thing (Joe Pesci looking stupid and accidently firing a gun, Jet Li kicking Mel's
ass, Rene kicking someone's ass). There's a little bit where Mel and Rene talk about getting married. There's also a scene where Mel looks
black and blue, Rene asks him what happened and he says 'I had some bad Chinese'. And pretty much the usual stuff.
The actor's names then come up (I was pretty surprised that Jet Li's name was actually included among them) and then we cut to Chris Rock
tackling and handcuffing an Asian guy on the the ground as he says 'You have the right to remain silent, you have the right to an attorney. If
you get Johnny Cochran, I'll kill you'.
"The LW4 logo comes up one more time, and it looks like the trailer is over, until Chris Rock comes back on screen talking directly to the
audience. He says something like 'Hi, I'm Mel Gibson, yeah, I might look a little different, but trust me, it's the same old Mel'.
All in all, a pretty decent trailer. The audience was loving it, screaming and cheering all the way. This thing should be a monster."
Jet Li has a shaved head again (like in Fist of Legend), but has grown a "rat tail" on the back. It looks funny! Anyways, MC4, who runs his own brilliant website, MC4's Hong Kong Movies Page, has kindly allowed me to show these pictures of Jet in the trailer.