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It's the best thing I ever wrote. There's no question the draft of Lethal Weapon II that I wrote, death and all, is my best work. Head and shoulders, intensity wise, above a lot of the stuff I've done.
It was clear, at the end of our draft [co-written with friend Warren Murphy] — which was pretty melancholy — that wasn't really where [the studio] wanted to go. But there's a lot of elements that are [ours] in Lethal Weapon 2 — we still received a 'story by' credit. I recognized things when I watched "Lethal Weapon 2" that was in the script that we wrote, but the tone is totally different.
Shane [was] a smart, caustic young guy, and wanted to kind of show the world he knew what he was doing and he decided to kill Martin Riggs in act 2 [of 'Lethal Weapon 2'], and spare us two other movies [laughs]," Silver said. "But the studio didn't think that was such a good idea, so we didn't do that. But most of the story of 'Lethal 2' was Shane's, and most of the set up and pay off were Shane's.