The Aquaman star details the process of getting a Lethal Weapon inspired pitch off the ground with showrunner Jonathan Tropper He actually truly wanted it.
There was nothing funny about watching Jason Momoa and Dave Bautista beat each other to a bloody pulp last season on the Apple TV+ series See but when cameras were not rolling it was a real hoot.
It was a lot of laughing show runner Jonathan Tropper told The Hollywood Reporter at the season three premiere on Aug. 23. Watching them after cut and seeing how they behaved how they sassed each other and made fun of each other. They had a great time together like two brothers and thats where this whole thing was born.
That whole thing is a Lethal Weapon-inspired buddy cop comedy set in Hawaii that reportedly inspired a bidding war before it eventually landed at MGM. But even though they came up with the concept on set Momoa tells THR that he and Bautista still asked Tropper to pitch his take.truth of it is that we made his ass audition with other writers. We love Jonathan but we thought well we can not just hand it over to him. But he brought an amazing pitch and he won it. He simply won it off this pitch and so we were like yeah you got it dude. It was not just being a good friend and wanting to do something together he actually truly wanted it.
Tropper confirms that he has now in the middle of writing it and the trio has big plans. Hopefully we can build a franchise who knows. Maybe we will do multiple movies.
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