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‘Lethal Weapon 4’ Writer: ‘Mel Gibson Will Never Star in a Big Movie Again’

Mel Gibson will never be allowed to work on a big-budget movie again because of his “hateful statements” against Jews last year–according to the Jewish writer of Lethal Weapon 4.

Gibson famously made anti-Semitic remarks during his arrest for driving under the influence in July 2006. He was sentenced to three years probation, fined $1,300 and ordered to attend Alcoholic Anonymous meetings for a year.

And Jonathan Lemkin, who wrote the story for 1998’s Lethal Weapon 4, believes Gibson‘s drunken rant has left studio bosses nervous about casting him in future blockbusters.

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Speaking at the U.K. DVD launch for action film Shooter, he tells WENN, “I don’t know if there will be a Lethal Weapon 5 because I don’t think studio bosses will have him in those kind of big summer films. He did make hateful statements. I don’t know how his rehabilitation went–and he is a wonderful actor and filmmaker, but he is a hate monger.”

However, Lemkin refused to be drawn on whether he would be involved with a screenplay for Lethal Weapon 5 if the opportunity arose, saying, “I couldn’t answer that.”

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