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Although Shane Black (born December 16, 1961) began his career as an actor, his main claim to fame has been as the screenwriter responsible for the some of the biggest blockbuster action films of the late 1980s and early 1990s, including Lethal Weapon
and The Last Boy Scout
.

At the height of his career he was the highest paid screenwriter in the Hollywood movie industry. He received US$1.75 million for his screenplay The Last Boy Scout and US$4 million for penning The Long Kiss Goodnight
.

Shane Black made his directorial debut with 2005's Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang
, for which he also wrote the screenplay.

Career

Black has admitted on numerous occasions that many of the scripts he had written for other directors, although commanding a hefty sum, were rewritten to a point where they hardly resembled his product.

From an interview in Empire magazine:

The Last Boy Scout and The Long Kiss Goodnight :But the two scripts—The Last Boy Scout, which at that time sold for more money than any other script, and The Long Kiss Goodnight which sold for much more money at that time than any other script—were both extensively rewritten.

Lethal Weapon 2 :The problem was that with Lethal Weapon 2 they did a lot of comedy. My draft had one scene with Joe Pesci's guy. He had a few lines. In their version, they had essentially the same character but threw out the entire script. It’s all about edge to me.

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