20 Classic Films That Could Be Rebooted with Female Leads

6. Lethal Weapon, with Kate McKinnon and Leslie Jones

Ah, the classic buddy cop movie. Although the trope itself has a pretty male-dominated origin, it’s been revisited by ladies recently with movies like The Heat and Hot Pursuit. We know the basic outline well: a cop who plays by the rules and does everything by the book encounters a cop who thumbs their nose at protocol and definitely doesn’t wait for backup. It’s their conflicting investigative styles that usually works to their advantage in the end, as they realize they need to use their individual strengths together to take down the bad guys. (They also typically come out on the other side with a begrudging respect for one another.)

McKinnon and Jones are friends as well as co-stars; the two ladies have been working together on Saturday Night Live (where Jones was a writer long before she joined the repertory cast alongside McKinnon), but they’ve been frequently paired together during the Ghostbusters press junket and continually serve to remind us how hilarious they are – not just as individuals but when playing off each other too. The only dilemma would be deciding who gets to play good cop and who gets to play bad cop; they’re both equally capable of acting goofy as well as straight-laced, but either way: these two would be the perfect buddy cop duo. (I can already hear Leslie Jones quoting that classic line by Danny Glover.)

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