I heard a rumor that in the end, Riggs getting shot by Rudd was supposed to have killed Riggs at the end, but here, Riggs shrugs off the wounds and survives. Is it true that Riggs was supposed to die at the end?
shareThe rumor is that Shane Black wanted Riggs to die, and that he left the project when everyone else said no.
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Green explosions, people flying in and out? That was not real, I wanna talk to the cops!
I'm glad everyone vetoed the opinion. I wouldn't want Riggs to die either.
shareDid you watch 3&4? Wouldn't have been a terrible idea.
shareI've seen all the Lethal Weapon movies. I especially like 3 and 4.
shareI can respect that...I just felt that after 2, it got too corny. A lot of the humor was forced. The only thing I loved about 4 was Jet Li. Hated Chris Rock (he needs to stick to stand up comedy, he cants act for shyte). He ruined it for me.
3 was better than 4, but 1&2 were the best.
I hated 1 and 2, though. In the first movie they should have killed Joshua first THEN General McAllister, and 2's ending wasn't as happy as the other three movies.
shareIt made perfect sense to kill McAllister first, then Joshua.
McAllister was a bitch, oshua was built up to be a badass like Riggs, everybody could see it right from the beginning that they were destined to fight the final bout in the movie.
...but they hung him anyway.
Hanged, Ami. Your father was not a tapestry.
Well, in action movies and video games, I always preferred having the henchman go down first, then kill the main bad guy. I know some James Bond movies that had the henchman as the final enemy of the movie.
shareYou hated 1 and 2...? Damn
shareJet Li pretty much single-handedly made 4 a great movie.
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Yeah, well known rumour.
I kind of think Riggs should have died in Lethal Weapon 4. Better character arc. As soon as he seems to have everything settled down and his family life is beginning, bam, he meets another lethal weapon that can take him down.
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Would you have him drown after killing Wah Sing Ku, then?
shareIn a 1998 issue (#77) of a French magazine called Impact, Shane Black verified it: "The first film ended with a relatively closed end. I tried to write the second by making it constitute a logical continuation as if, in retrospect, the first one was not finished. Basically, Riggs' story is that of a misfit, someone who is morally dead and about to die physically. He is like Frankenstein. When this creature is taken in by a suburban family, he learns to live again. In this second part, an event kept his old demons alive and pushed him to make a sacrifice for this family that had almost saved him. Logically, he was therefore condemned to die. He was only living on borrowed time. And the fact that he had, for a tiny part of his existence, rediscovered life, prepared him to die in peace. I loved the scene of his death, it was brought about in a very particular, very intense way, and I am convinced that it had the potential to make an audience cry, who had originally come to see an action film."
The result: "When they read it, the people at the studio simply replied to me "But if you do that, we will never have a number 3." I told them that there could not be one. It was the most they could get out of this story, at least with me. In addition, Richard Donner liked the script but he wanted to make a comedy. He thought it was too dark, too depressing. He wanted the Three Stooges. I couldn't do a complete change of the ending and a comedy. So I left the project. They ended up using less than half of what I had written. They added this thief, played by Joe Pesci, to get their Three Stooges. The character of Leo Getz was already in my script... but only for one scene! It was a painful experience. I was terrified of my inability to satisfy the studio, of not being able to do what they asked me to do. To meet their expectations, I saw myself having to become a whore, who pockets the money and immediately goes behind the typewriter."