"Die Hard Die Hard is a 1988 American action thriller film. It was directed by John McTiernan, and written by Steven E. de Souza and Jeb Stuart. It was produced by the Gordon Company and Silver Pictures, and distributed by 20th Century Fox. The film follows off-duty New York City Police Department officer John McClane (Bruce Willis) who is caught in a Los Angeles skyscraper during a heist led by Hans Gruber (Alan Rickman). It is based on Roderick Thorp's 1979 novel ""Nothing Lasts Forever"". Made for $28 million, ""Die Hard"" grossed over $140 million theatrically worldwide, with the film"
"Die Hard (film series) The ""Die Hard"" series is an American action film series that originated with Roderick Thorp's novel ""Nothing Lasts Forever"". All five films revolve around the character of John McClane (portrayed by Bruce Willis), a New York City and Los Angeles police detective who continually finds himself in the middle of violent crises and intrigues where he is the only hope against disaster. The films have grossed a combined $1.4 billion worldwide and received positive reviews from critics, except the fifth installment which was negatively received. The first film begins on Christmas Eve when McClane comes to"
"John McClane John McClane is the main protagonist of the ""Die Hard"" film series. He is portrayed by Bruce Willis. He is known for his sardonic one-liners, including the famous catchphrase ""Yippee-ki-yay, motherfucker"". John McClane was originally based on the fictional character Detective Joe Leland from Roderick Thorp's bestselling novel, ""Nothing Lasts Forever"". Other aspects are derived from Frank Malone from Walter Wager's novel ""58 Minutes"" (adapted as ""Die Hard 2""). ""Die Hard"" villain Hans Gruber describes him as ""just another American... who thinks he's John Wayne,"" to which McClane replies that he ""was always partial to Roy Rogers."" He"
"Die Hard with a Vengeance Die Hard with a Vengeance is a 1995 American action thriller film and the third in the ""Die Hard"" film series. It was co-produced and directed by John McTiernan (who directed ""Die Hard""), written by Jonathan Hensleigh, and stars Bruce Willis as New York City Police Department Lieutenant John McClane, Samuel L. Jackson as McClane's reluctant partner Zeus Carver, and Jeremy Irons as Simon Gruber. It was released on May 19, 1995, five years after ""Die Hard 2"", becoming the second highest-grossing film at the worldwide box-office that year. It received mixed reviews. It was"
"in third, behind only Ellen Ripley and Dirty Harry. In April 2009, ""Entertainment Weekly"" ranked John McClane sixth in list of the top twenty ""All-Time Coolest Heroes in Pop Culture"", describing ""Bruce Willis' wisecracking, terrorist-foiling New York cop"" character as ""the anti-Bond"". The magazine called the characters portrayed by Keanu Reeves in ""Speed"", Wesley Snipes in ""Passenger 57"", and Jean-Claude Van Damme in ""Sudden Death"" as ""copycat descendants"" of John McClane. Bruce Willis was called ""an excellent casting choice as a sardonic action hero."" John McClane John McClane is the main protagonist of the ""Die Hard"" film series. He is"
"Die Hard 2 Die Hard 2 is a 1990 American action thriller film and the second installment in the ""Die Hard"" film series. The film was released on July 4, 1990 in the United States. The film was directed by Renny Harlin, written by Steven E. deSouza and Doug Richardson and stars Bruce Willis as John McClane. The film co-stars Bonnie Bedelia, William Sadler, Art Evans, William Atherton, Franco Nero, Dennis Franz, Fred Thompson, John Amos and Reginald VelJohnson. The screenplay was adapted from Walter Wager's novel ""58 Minutes"". The novel has the same plot but differs slightly: a cop"
"released on DVD on June 19, 2007, followed by a Blu-ray release on November 20, 2007 and a re-release on January 29, 2013. Die Hard 2 Die Hard 2 is a 1990 American action thriller film and the second installment in the ""Die Hard"" film series. The film was released on July 4, 1990 in the United States. The film was directed by Renny Harlin, written by Steven E. deSouza and Doug Richardson and stars Bruce Willis as John McClane. The film co-stars Bonnie Bedelia, William Sadler, Art Evans, William Atherton, Franco Nero, Dennis Franz, Fred Thompson, John Amos and"
"Die Hard"". In ""Live Free or Die Hard"", Lucy tells her boyfriend that McClane is dead and calls herself ""Lucy Gennero"", her mother's maiden name. She is later kidnapped by cyber-terrorist Thomas Gabriel for leverage against her father. She proves to be resilient, tells her father the positions of Gabriel's men, and injures one when McClane is incapacitated. By the end of the film, she calls herself ""Lucy McClane"" and develops feelings for a hacker called Matt Farrell. Winstead reprised her role for a cameo appearance in ""A Good Day to Die Hard"". Since ""Live Free or Die Hard"", she"
"Die Hard (video game) John McClane decides to visit his wife Holly in Nakatomi Plaza, only to discover that she is taken hostage on the 30th floor, along with a number of other hostages. The terrorist leader, Hans Gruber, is after the money locked away in a safe on the 30th floor. His hacker, Theo, is slowly breaking the locks into the vault. McClane decides to fight the terrorists on his own, ascending the building as he does so. There are 40 terrorists scattered throughout the building, and John McClane's task is to clear each floor of terrorists, and he"
"of the right on other matters"", such as Winston Churchill who had been a ""bête noire"" of the original die-hards. Some of the die-hards, though not Churchill, flirted with Oswald Mosley's British Union of Fascists and/or supported Neville Chamberlain's policy of appeasement. The term is now commonly used to describe any person who will not be swayed from a belief, and was used as the title of the popular action movie series ""Die Hard"", all starring Bruce Willis as police officer John McClane. Die hard (phrase) The phrase die hard was first used during the Battle of Albuera (1811) in"
"aliens who commit gendercide to free the men of Earth from female oppression. ""Die Hard with a Vengeance"" (1995) featured a scene where villain Simon Peter Gruber (Jeremy Irons) required New York City Police Department Lt. John McClane (Bruce Willis) to wear a sandwich board reading ""I hate niggers"" while standing on a street corner in predominantly-black Harlem, resulting in McClane meeting Zeus Carver (Samuel L. Jackson) as Carver rescued McClane from being attacked by neighborhood toughs. American film director Quentin Tarantino has been criticized for the heavy usage of the word ""nigger"" in his movies, especially in ""Jackie Brown"","
"coach in the new Von Miller Old Spice Commercials 2017. Dennis Hayden (actor) Dennis Hayden (born April 7, 1952) is an American actor, producer and writer, most famous for his role as Eddie, one of the main terrorists in the popular 1988 action film ""Die Hard"". Dennis Hayden was one of five brothers and one sister born in Girard, Kansas on a pig and soybean farm. He worked the wheat harvest during summers off from high school, graduating in 1970. He worked the summer wheat harvests and played football, becoming the number one tackle in Kansas. He attended Fort Scott"
"of John McClane, the main protagonist of the ""Die Hard"" film series. is a man raised alongside Noctis to be his advisor. Provided with an extensive education, he developed a collected composure and tactical instinct. Ignis acts as Noctis' confidant and helper, forming a deep connection to Noctis during their youth when Noctis begins realizing his eventual fate of becoming king. Ignis is blinded during the Covenant ceremony with Leviathan, when he wields the Ring of the Lucii to drive Ardyn away from an unconscious Noctis. His blindness causes tension within the group until he forces a reconciliation. Ignis and"
"Jamie in ""Truly, Madly, Deeply"" (1991); numerous villains in Hollywood big-budget films, including German criminal Hans Gruber in ""Die Hard"" (1988), Australian Elliot Marston opposite Tom Selleck in ""Quigley Down Under"" (1990) and the Sheriff of Nottingham in """" (1991); and the occasional television role such as Dr. Alfred Blalock in HBO's ""Something the Lord Made"" (2004) and the ""mad monk"" Rasputin in the HBO biopic """" (1996), for which he won a Golden Globe Award and an Emmy Award. Rickman's role as Hans Gruber in ""Die Hard"" earned him a spot on the AFI's 100 Years...100 Heroes & Villains"
"Dennis Hayden (actor) Dennis Hayden (born April 7, 1952) is an American actor, producer and writer, most famous for his role as Eddie, one of the main terrorists in the popular 1988 action film ""Die Hard"". Dennis Hayden was one of five brothers and one sister born in Girard, Kansas on a pig and soybean farm. He worked the wheat harvest during summers off from high school, graduating in 1970. He worked the summer wheat harvests and played football, becoming the number one tackle in Kansas. He attended Fort Scott Junior College for the game, but then, when he was"
"mining magnate Charles W. Engelhard, Jr. In 2003, the American Film Institute declared Auric Goldfinger the 49th greatest villain in the past 100 years of film. In a poll on IMDb, Auric Goldfinger was voted the most sinister James Bond villain, beating out in order Ernst Stavro Blofeld, Dr. No, Max Zorin and Emilio Largo. Auric Goldfinger was played by German actor Gert Fröbe. Fröbe, who did not speak English well, was dubbed in the film by Michael Collins, an English actor. In the German version, Fröbe dubbed himself back again. ""Goldfinger"" was banned in Israel after it was revealed"
"that ""Die Hard"" is a Christmas film. However, at his Comedy Central Roast, Willis declared """"Die Hard"" is not a Christmas movie! It is a goddamn Bruce Willis movie!"" Acknowledging the debate over this, 20th Century Fox released a special ""Die Hard - Christmas Edition"" home media release in December 2018 (during the film's 30th anniversary), including a re-cut trailer to present the film as a heartwarming Christmas story. Die Hard Die Hard is a 1988 American action thriller film. It was directed by John McTiernan, and written by Steven E. de Souza and Jeb Stuart. It was produced by"
"Robert Patrick Robert Hammond Patrick Jr. (born November 5, 1958) is an American actor, perhaps best known for his portrayals of villainous characters. He is a Saturn Award winner with four nominations. Patrick dropped out of college when drama class sparked his interest in acting, and entered film in 1986. After playing a supporting role in ""Die Hard 2"" (1990), Patrick starred as the T-1000, the main antagonist of """" (1991) – a role he reprised for cameo appearances in ""Wayne's World"" (1992) and ""Last Action Hero"" (1993). Other notable film credits include ""Fire in the Sky"" (1993), ""Striptease"" (1996),"
"A Good Day to Die Hard A Good Day to Die Hard is a 2013 American action thriller film and the fifth installment in the ""Die Hard"" film series. The film was directed by John Moore and written by Skip Woods, and stars Bruce Willis as John McClane. The main plot finds McClane travelling to Russia to get his estranged son, Jack, an undercover CIA agent, out of prison. He is soon caught in the crossfire of a global terrorist plot. Alongside Willis, the film also stars Jai Courtney, Cole Hauser, Yuliya Snigir and Sebastian Koch. Talks of a fifth"
"to play the villain because producers Saltzman and Broccoli had seen his performance in a German thriller titled ""Es geschah am hellichten Tag"" (""It happened in broad daylight"", 1958), based on the story ""Das Versprechen"" (""The Pledge"") by Friedrich Dürrenmatt. In that film, Fröbe played a serial killer named Schrott, who kills children to vent his frustrations with his domineering wife. Broccoli and Saltzman had seen the movie and decided upon the ""big bad German"" for the role. In the film, Goldfinger, an avid golfer, reveals a fascination with Nazi gold when Bond tempts him to betting high stakes against"
"Live Free or Die Hard Live Free or Die Hard (released as Die Hard 4.0 outside North America) is a 2007 American action thriller film, and the fourth installment in the ""Die Hard"" film series. The film was directed by Len Wiseman and starred Bruce Willis as John McClane. The film's name was adapted from New Hampshire's state motto, ""Live Free or Die"". In the film, McClane attempts to stop cyber-terrorists who hack into government and commercial computers across the United States with the goal of starting a ""fire sale"" that would disable key elements of the nation's infrastructure. The"
"and falls to his death after stumbling backwards through a shattered window. In aftermath events of the first ""Die Hard"", Lt. McClane transfers to the Los Angeles Police Department. He dislikes his rise to national fame. Dialogue in the second film reveals that he was featured in ""People Magazine"", did a spot on ""Nightline"", and was referred to (by Colonel Stuart) as ""the policeman hero who saved the Nakatomi hostages"" along with a local news crew. In ""Die Hard 2"", on Christmas Eve, mercenaries seize control of Washington Dulles International Airport in Dulles, Virginia, 25 miles west of Washington, D.C."
"Hard to Kill Hard to Kill is a 1990 American action thriller film directed by Bruce Malmuth, and starring Steven Seagal, Kelly Le Brock, William Sadler, and Frederick Coffin. Seagal plays Mason Storm, a detective who falls into a coma after being shot during a fire-fight that killed his wife. Reawakening seven years later, Storm embarks on a journey to avenge the death of his wife, and expose the corruption of Senator Vernon Trent. In 1983, Mason Storm, a Los Angeles police detective, investigates a mob meeting that takes place by a pier. He records a shadowy figure who assures"
"United States. Hard to Kill Hard to Kill is a 1990 American action thriller film directed by Bruce Malmuth, and starring Steven Seagal, Kelly Le Brock, William Sadler, and Frederick Coffin. Seagal plays Mason Storm, a detective who falls into a coma after being shot during a fire-fight that killed his wife. Reawakening seven years later, Storm embarks on a journey to avenge the death of his wife, and expose the corruption of Senator Vernon Trent. In 1983, Mason Storm, a Los Angeles police detective, investigates a mob meeting that takes place by a pier. He records a shadowy figure"
"from others, is required against his wishes to thwart the elaborate plans of a group of like-minded villains because no one else is in a position to do so. The trailer for the first ""Die Hard"" film states, ""The last thing McClane wants is to be a hero, but he doesn't have a choice."" In the second film, he is told ""You're the wrong guy in the wrong place at the wrong time"", to which he replies, ""The story of my life."" In the fourth film, he says he gets involved in dangerous situations ""because there is nobody else to"
"as a child (Noah Land) in the first ""Die Hard"" film and as an adult by Jai Courtney in the fifth film, ""A Good Day to Die Hard"". In ""Live Free or Die Hard"", cyber-terrorist Thomas Gabriel calls him Jack, which is a common alternative nickname for ""John"" in the United States. In early drafts of the script of ""Live Free or Die Hard"", John Jr. was set to be in the film. Jack is a CIA agent stationed in Russia to retrieve Yuri Komarov, a political prisoner who had evidence against Viktor Chagarin in a file at Chernobyl. To"
"turning Willis into an action star, and became a metonym for an action film in which a lone hero fights overwhelming odds. The film's success created the ""Die Hard"" franchise, which includes four sequels, a number of video games, and a comic book, and later in 2017 was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry. ""Die Hard"" has been named one of the best action and Christmas-themed films ever made. The film also ranks on ""Empire""s 2017 list of the 100 greatest movies of all time. On Christmas Eve, NYPD detective John McClane arrives in Los Angeles,"
"a helicopter flies to what the pilot believes is the beach trailer home of the film's protagonist, Jack Colt (portrayed by Emilio Estevez), and peppers it with bullets, causing it to explode. Instead of it being Estevez crawling out of the wreckage, it turns out to be John McClane himself, wearing a grubby vest and white flag. The gunman asks sheepishly whether or not he has the right address, with McClane helpfully pointing them in the right direction; McClane then receives an apology from the pilot for the mistake. In ""Die Hard with a Vengeance"", McClane has returned to New"
"De'voreaux White De'voreaux White (born August 6, 1965) is an American actor. He was born August 6, 1965 in Los Angeles, California. White is perhaps best known for his role in ""Die Hard"" as the young limousine driver, Argyle. He also played a youth in the 1980 film ""Blues Brothers"", in which he tries to steal a guitar from Ray Charles' music store. In 1984 he played Wylie, who was lynched for accidentally shooting a white sheriff in ""Places in the Heart"". White is one of the boys who attempt to keep the baseball in the Neil Simon movie ""Max"
"followed by ""Live Free or Die Hard"" in 2007 and ""A Good Day to Die Hard"" in 2013. In New York City, the Bonwit Teller department store is destroyed by a bomb during the morning commute. The New York City Police Department gets a call from ""Simon"" ordering them that suspended police officer Lt. John McClane be dropped in Harlem wearing a sandwich board with ""I Hate Niggers"" written on it, and threatening to detonate another bomb if they do not comply. They collect a hung-over McClane and follow Simon's instructions. McClane is saved from an angry group of Black"
"the player the roof has been destroyed by the helicopter sent by Hans. The Nintendo Entertainment System version of the game is played from a top-down perspective, as opposed to the 1st-/3rd-person perspective seen on the Commodore 64 and DOS ports. Die Hard (video game) John McClane decides to visit his wife Holly in Nakatomi Plaza, only to discover that she is taken hostage on the 30th floor, along with a number of other hostages. The terrorist leader, Hans Gruber, is after the money locked away in a safe on the 30th floor. His hacker, Theo, is slowly breaking the"
"Patrick credited his early appearances in films to his ""tough-looking exterior"". Patrick made a short appearance in ""Die Hard 2"" as a bit part henchman for Colonel Stuart before landing a role in """" (1991) as the main villain, the T-1000; it was his first starring role. James Cameron, the film's director, said he chose Patrick for the role because of his physical appearance, which he felt fit the role. During the filming of ""Terminator 2: Judgment Day"", Patrick was ""broke"", living in a cheap apartment with his girlfriend, Barbara, whom he married during filming. He has credited the film"
"must stop terrorists who take an airport hostage while his wife's plane circles overhead, and has 58 minutes to do so before the plane crashes. Roderick Thorp, who wrote the novel ""Nothing Lasts Forever"", upon which ""Die Hard"" was based, receives credit for creating ""certain original characters"", although his name is misspelled onscreen as ""Roderick Thorpe"". As with the first film, the action in ""Die Hard 2"" takes place on Christmas Eve. McClane is waiting for his wife to land at Washington Dulles International Airport when terrorists take over the air traffic control system. He must stop the terrorists before"