Mel Gibson Booted from Lethal Weapon 5; Franchise Rebooted

In the business of episodic television, when producers get irritated by cantankerous star, they order up an "elimination episode" to get rid of his character. In the business of movie franchises, they order up a reboot. That's what Warner Brothers just did to solve its Mel Gibson problem vis-a-vis Lethal Weapon 5, one of the two hugely profitable franchises Gibson made with the siblings studio (the other being Mad Max), according to Deadline: New York.