Fox’s upcoming Lethal Weapon series has added Fast and Furious‘ Jordana Brewster in a starring role. According to Fox, Brewster will be playing a character named Dr. Maureen ‘Mo’ Cahill. The comedy/drama is based on the Lethal Weapon film series and comes from Fox and WBTV. Damon Wayans is on board to play Roger Murtaugh and Golden Brooks will play Trish Murtaugh. Danny Glover played Roger and Darlene Love was Trish in the Lethal Weapon feature films.
Fox released this description of Brewster’s character in Lethal Weapon: ” No-nonsense Dr. Maureen ‘Mo’ Cahill is the LAPD’s hostage negotiator as well as its in-house therapist. She helps cops deal with their trauma and occasionally gets stuck with a real hard case like Riggs.” The series is being executive produced by McG, Matt Miller, Dan Lin, and Jennifer Gwartz. McG is attached to direct the pilot from a script by Miller.
Brewster’s credits include the Fast and the Furious film franchise (playing Vin Diesel’s sister/Paul Walker’s wife). She’s also starred in The Faculty, D.E.B.S., Annapolis, Chuck, Dark Blue, Dallas, and Secrets and Lies.
The first Lethal Weapon movie starring Mel Gibson and Danny Glover was directed by Richard Donner and hit theaters on March 6, 1987. Lethal Weapon 2 followed on July 7, 1989 with Lethal Weapon 3 arriving in theaters on May 15, 1992. The trio of Gibson, Glover and Donner reunited one final time for Lethal Weapon 4 which opened in theaters on July 10, 1998.
