Unfinished Houses to Be Burned Down for Movie
About a dozen half-built houses in an abandoned Lancaster housing tract will be torched to film the climax of the movie “Lethal Weapon III” in exchange for a promise by the movie makers to demolish whatever remains of the structures, under a tentative agreement announced Thursday.
Aides to U.S. Sen. John Seymour (R-Calif.) said that officials of the federal Resolution Trust Corp., which acquired the vacant Legends housing tract from a failed savings and loan, were completing an agreement with Warner Bros.
The city of Lancaster, which has a bid pending with the RTC to buy the property, had asked the movie makers to destroy the houses to remove an eyesore and save the city the expense of demolition.
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