In another part of the script, he also uses Shuriken (throwing Ninja stars) to wound one of the villains, and then tortures him for information. For example, in the original version of the scene where he kills a sniper who is shooting at the kids, instead of using his gun, Riggs uses a rocket launcher to blow up the sniper after he shot and killed several kids.
Riggs was also a much different character in this first draft than he is in the movie, and lot more mentally unstable.
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This first draft was 141 pages long, and it was much darker, it had alternate plot parts, character scenes, action sequences, and many other differences, like an entire ending, which had a big chase scene, including a police helicopter which gets blown up by Joshua, who fires napalm missile at it causing it to crash into the Hollywood sign and start a huge fire, Murtaugh killing General McAllister while he is driving a trailer truck full of heroin and guns which then crashes and explodes over Hollywood Hills causing heroin to start snowing over the burning Hollywood sign, and Riggs killing Joshua by stabbing his fingers through Joshua's eye right into his brain. Shane Black's first draft of Lethal Weapon (1987), which he wrote sometime in 1985, was very different, not just from his later drafts, but also from the final movie. The filming was spread over four complete nights, shooting from dusk till dawn, resulting in an edited sequence that would last several minutes on-screen. The third technical advisor was Rorion Gracie, who specialized in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. A second technical advisor, Dennis Newsome, brought jailhouse rock to the fight sequence. Adams taught the actors the movements of Capoeira.
"Adams thought the best possible way to show just how lethal Riggs really is - is to show his mastery of a form of martial arts never before seen on-screen," said Donner. Cedric Adams was the first expert brought in. The result was the hiring of three technical advisors, each a master of a particular martial arts style. Coincidentally, assistant director Willie Simmons had an avid interest in unusual forms of martial arts, and he invited several practitioners to the set to demonstrate for Donner. From the early pre-production stages, Richard Donner wanted the final fight sequence to be unique, yet also to make a strong statement about the characters involved.