Question for fans; Original Play Dirty script for Lethal Weapon 2

I'm curious to find out was Shane Black's original script for Lethal Weapon 2 ever mentioned in some interview with him and is there some way to find it and read it. Unfortunately, only version of the script that's available to read online is November '88 draft which is written by other writers and other than opening and ending scenes it's mostly the same as final film.

I heard so much about Black's script over the years, and it really sounds like it's much better than the mess that final movie is. Don't get me wrong, i do like the film and it's only LW sequel i like, and while it's not as good as first film, it is still fun action film, but with some rather unnecessary things and uneven tone with constant changes between goofy comedy and dark action thriller. For fks sake, movie starts with Looney Tunes theme and in second half you have some darker scenes like police officers dying one after the other. And then there are some moments which really make no sense.

Instead of going into details about differences between Black's script and final film myself, here's the info about it from Trivia;

After first movie turned out to be huge hit, earning $120 million on the budget of $15 million, it was decided to make the sequel. Producer Joel Silver asked writer of the first film Shane Black to write the script for the sequel, and Black agreed. Despite having some problems in his personal life, Black managed to write his first draft of the script in six months along with his friend, novelist Warren Murphy, co-creator of Remo Williams (the lead character of The Destroyer novels).

Although many people thought that their script was brilliant, Warner Bros studio and producers, including Silver, and director Richard Donner however disagreed with Black's decision to kill off Riggs' character in the ending, because they wanted to keep him alive for future sequels, and they also thought that Black and Murphy's script was way too bloody and dark, and they wanted a lighter, more comedic script, while their draft was completely serious and it focused more on courage and heroics, like Riggs coming full circle from the way he was in the first film and how his relationship with Murtaugh and his family brought him back to life and into the real world, helping him to let his guard down and learn to accept the love of real people, and in Black's version of the script it's the very love that makes Riggs willing to die to protect them.

Other parts from Black and Murphy's script which were changed or left out of the final version of the script include Leo Getz being only a minor character and having only one scene and few lines of dialogue. Lot more violence throughout like South African villains, who were even more vicious in original script than in the final film, torturing Shapiro, female police officer working with Riggs and Murtaugh (one who is killed by bomb in the pool in the film) to death in very nasty scene. There was also a scene where Riggs is tortured by South Africans in similar way like he was in the first film but much worse. Script also included an action sequence in which plane full of cocaine gets destroyed causing for cocaine to fall all over L.A like snow.

The ending of the script included climactic battle which took place at hills engulfed with big brush fire, and after destruction of stilt house Riggs chases Benedict (original name of the villain Pieter Vorstedt from the movie) who was different and lot more dangerous character in original script and Riggs' "arch-nemesis, his worst nightmare" as Black himself said, into the fire. After the final battle with Benedict Riggs dies very slowly after he gets stabbed by him. The last scene in Black's script was Murtaugh watching the video tape that Riggs made earlier since he had a premonition that he was going to die and in which he says his goodbye to Murtaugh.

Following the studio's negative reaction on his script and their demands for massive re-writes, Shane Black left the project after six months earning only $125,000 for his work (Warren Murphy also earned same amount), and never worked on any of the sequels. Black did said in later years in interviews how he considers his original script for Lethal Weapon 2 which was also called Play Dirty to be his best work and most intense script he has written, and how other than the scene where stilt house gets destroyed, his script was completely different than the one used for filming. He also said how the problem with final version of second movie was that they did too much comedy, and how he dislikes the other two sequels of the film because of the way they ruined Riggs' character.

Despite many attempts by fans of the Lethal Weapon movies and Shane Black, his original script for second film was never found and it remains highly demanded and most wanted of all Black's scripts.