The house that got firebombed had previously served as the family home in "The Partridge Family" (1970) and the Kravitzes' home in "Bewitched" (1964).
Franco Zeffirelli reportedly decided to offer Mel Gibson the role of Hamlet after seeing his suicide contemplation scene in Lethal Weapon.
Legendary stuntman Dar Robinson was killed in a motorcycle accident shortly after principle photograph was finished on Lethal Weapon. Richard Donner dedicated "Lethal Weapon" to Robinson
Hollywood city officials hung Christmas decorations on Hollywood Blvd. a few months early so that the scenes shot for this film, particularly the action scenes near the end of the picture, looked like they happened at the end of the year.
One sequence shows a theatre marquee advertising The Lost Boys (1987), a film Richard Donner was producing at the time.
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