Men... det ændrer vel ikke på, at Hensleighs manuskript, selvom det inden da var en selvstændig fortælling, blev omdannet fra en "Dødbringende våben"-historie til en "Die Hard"-historie? Det er det, der står i nyheden, som heller ikke anfægter manuskriptets oprindelige rødder.
Manuskriptet blev aldrig lavet om fra en "Dødbringende våben" historie, da Manuskriptet aldrig blev rettet til en "Dødbringende våben" historie. Selskabet overvejede blot at købe Manuskriptet til deres franchise.
Tragically, Lee was killed during the filming of his next film, The Crow, in 1993. The script went back into the pile of available scripts owned by Fox. It was still a well-regarded script, though, which is very important when it comes to sequels, as you have to try to convince some of these stars to come back for another film when they really are not particularly interested in doing another sequel (Bruce Willis notably turned down a number of scripts for a third Die Hard film during the early 1990s). So when Warner Brothers and producer Joel Silver were looking to make a fourth Lethal Weapon film, they contacted Fox and tried to buy the script to adapt into Lethal Weapon 4. So that’s undoubtedly where the legend comes from. However, the sale never actually occurred (they did not end up finding a good enough script for Lethal Weapon 4 until 1998).
Eventually, director John McTiernan (the director of the first Die Hard film) discovered the script and adapted it into Die Hard With a Vengeance in 1995 (still at 20th Century Fox).
https://legendsrevealed.com/entertainment/2013/04/10/was-die-hard-with-a-vengeance-originally-written-as-lethal-weapon-4/