"be ""A Good Day to Die Hard""—with no further mention of any involvement from the ""24"" series—with a release date of February 14, 2013. Bruce Willis returned as John McClane, and has expressed a desire to shoot ""A Good Day to Die Hard"" and a sixth installment in the series before retiring the character. When casting the role of Jack McClane, the studios considered several actors, including Liam Hemsworth and James Badge Dale, before ultimately settling on Australian actor Jai Courtney. Mary Elizabeth Winstead also appeared in the film, reprising her role as McClane's daughter Lucy. However all her scenes"
"again to play the real-life cowboy actor Tom Mix in ""Sunset"" (1988). However, it was his then-unexpected turn in the film ""Die Hard"" (1988) as John McClane that catapulted him to movie star and action hero status. He performed most of his own stunts in the film, and the film grossed $138,708,852 worldwide. Following his success with ""Die Hard"", he had a leading role in the drama ""In Country"" as Vietnam veteran Emmett Smith and also provided the voice for a talking baby in ""Look Who's Talking"", as well as its sequel, ""Look Who's Talking Too"". In the late 1980s,"
"John McClane in ""Die Hard"", Willis reprised his role in the sequels ""Die Hard 2"" (1990) and ""Die Hard with a Vengeance"" (1995). These first three installments in the ""Die Hard"" series grossed over US$700 million internationally and propelled Willis to the first rank of Hollywood action stars. In the early 1990s, Willis's career suffered a moderate slump, as he starred in flops such as ""The Bonfire of the Vanities"" (1990). He gained more success with ""Striking Distance"" (1993) but flopped again with ""Color of Night"" (1994): another box office failure, it was savaged by critics but did well in"
"of a maverick, resourceful lone hero has always been a common thread from James Bond to John Rambo, but John McClane in ""Die Hard"" is much more of an 'everyday' person whom circumstance turns into a reluctant hero. The film set a pattern for a host of imitators, like ""Under Siege"" (1992) and ""Sudden Death"", which used the same formula in a different setting. By the end of the 1980s, the influence of the successful action film could be felt in almost every genre. Like the Western genre, spy-movies, as well as urban-action films, were starting to parody themselves, and"
"Frears, about a Las Vegas cocktail waitress who becomes an elite professional gambler. The two films were distributed by Lionsgate Entertainment. Willis reprised his most famous role, John McClane, for a fifth time, starring in ""A Good Day to Die Hard"", which was released on February 14, 2013. In an interview, Willis said, ""I have a warm spot in my heart for ""Die Hard""... it's just the sheer novelty of being able to play the same character over 25 years and still be asked back is fun. It's much more challenging to have to do a film again and try"
"the series. In May 2009, BOOM! Studios announced that they would be releasing an ongoing ""Die Hard"" comic series that would serve as a prequel to the first movie. Its story is set in 1976 and follows John McClane as a rookie cop in the NYPD, and is scripted by Howard Chaykin. The first issue of """" was released on September 30, 2009. Eight issues have been released, with the eighth released on April 12, 2010. The official description read: The official description read: Die Hard (film series) The ""Die Hard"" series is an American action film series that originated"
"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,"
"published as an original property. Similarly to hit action films of the time, ""Die Hard Arcade"" is dominated by over-the-top yet largely gore-free violence which is played for comedic effect. Released in 1996 for arcades, the game was ported to the Sega Saturn in 1997 and the PlayStation 2 (Japan only) in the Sega Ages line in 2006. A sequel, ""Dynamite Cop"", was released for arcades and Dreamcast in 1998 without the ""Die Hard"" license. ""Die Hard Arcade"" is a beat 'em up for one or two players, who play as either John McClane or Kris Thompsen (Bruno Delinger and"
"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."
"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"
"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"
"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"
"""Dallas Morning News"" saying ""Willis' presence at least provides undercurrents of easy jocularity."" CinemaScore polls conducted during the opening weekend, cinema audiences gave the series entries grades of ""A+"", ""A"", ""A−"", ""A−"", ""B+"" respectively on an A+ to F scale. For an extended list, see List of Die Hard characters. A number of video games based on the successful movie franchise ""Die Hard"" have been released over the years, ranging from beat 'em ups to first-person shooters. While some of the games are based directly on the movies, a few further detail the adventures of John McClane between or after"
"Additional cast members include Stuart's henchmen: Don Harvey as Garber, John Costelloe as Sergeant Oswald Cochrane, Vondie Curtis-Hall as Miller, John Leguizamo as Burke, Robert Patrick as O'Reilly, Tom Verica as Kahn, Tony Ganios as Baker, Michael Cunningham as Sheldon, Peter Nelson as Thompson, Ken Baldwin as Mulkey, and Mark Boone Junior as Shockley. Robert Costanzo appears as Sgt. Vito Lorenzo, Carmine's brother and towing supervisor. Patrick O'Neal appears as Telford, Major Grant's Second in Command. Colm Meaney appears as the pilot of the Windsor Airlines flight crashed through Stuart's machinations. ""Die Hard 2"" was the first film to use"
"television successes. Conrad, in particular, would continue to portray Matt on the radio series until it ended in 1961. He would also go on to direct a number of television programs (including two episodes of ""Gunsmoke""), to become ""The Narrator"" for the original television series of ""The Fugitive"" (1963–1967) and star in three television series: ""Cannon"" (1971–1976), ""Jake and the Fat Man"" (1987–1992), and the short-lived 1981 series ""Nero Wolfe"". In the 1988 action classic, ""Die Hard"", Hans Gruber (Alan Rickman), asks John McClane (Bruce Willis) whom he is trying to imitate with his heroics, and he mentions Marshal Dillon"
"his wife's plane and several other incoming flights that are circling the airport run out of fuel and crash. During the night, McClane must also contend with airport police, maintenance workers, and a military commander, all of whom do not want his assistance. The film was preceded by ""Die Hard"" (1988) and followed by ""Die Hard with a Vengeance"" (1995), ""Live Free or Die Hard"" (2007), and ""A Good Day to Die Hard"" (2013). On Christmas Eve 1990, two years after the Nakatomi Tower Incident, police officer John McClane is waiting at Washington Dulles International Airport for his wife Holly"
"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"
"Donal McCann Donal McCann (7 May 1943 – 17 July 1999) was an Irish stage, film, and television actor best known for his roles in the works of Brian Friel and for his lead role in John Huston's last film, ""The Dead"". McCann was born in Terenure in Dublin. His father was John J. McCann, a playwright and politician who served twice as Dublin's Lord Mayor. Although Donal had acted in a production of his father's ""Give Me a Bed of Roses"" at Terenure College in 1962, he briefly studied architecture before taking a job as a sub-editor at the"
"the first challenge, and reluctantly continues to help. The FBI reveal Simon is the brother of Hans Gruber, killed in the first film. McClane learns revenge is a cover story for robbing the New York Federal Reserve. McClane tracks Simon to the Canada–US border. McClane kills Simon by shooting at a power line above Simon's helicopter. It was released on May 19, 1995 to mixed reviews and grossed $366.1 million worldwide. The fourth film, which was released as Die Hard 4.0 outside North America, takes place on Independence Day, over a decade after ""Die Hard with a Vengeance"". McClane is"
"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"","
"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"
"examines a train full of travelers struggling to coexist in a world covered by ice and snow. Starring Chris Evans, the film was released around the world in 2013 and 2014 in the United States. Luke Pasqualino Luca Giuseppe ""Luke"" Pasqualino (born 19 February 1990) is a British actor, known for his portrayal of Freddie McClair in the television series ""Skins"" and d'Artagnan in the television series ""The Musketeers"". From 2016–17, he played Elvis Harte in another BBC show ""Our Girl"". Pasqualino was born in Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, to parents of Italian descent, from Sicily and Naples. He attended Walton Community"
"do it"" and if there was, he'd gladly let someone else do it. Unlike many ""one man army"" action heroes of the 80s, the events of the movie actually take their toll on McClane physically, with McClane entering the climax of the movie severely injured. In the first ""Die Hard"" movie, McClane carries a Beretta 92F as his duty weapon. In the next two movies, his service pistol is a Beretta 92FS, even though the NYPD has never issued the Beretta 92 for duty use. He later uses a Sig P220 as his duty gun in the fourth and fifth"
"life, McCann was a quiet and unassuming man, but he battled both depression and alcoholism all his life. He had many friends in Irish theatre and artistic circles but also across all strata of life. His hobbies included sketching and he was passionate about horse racing. He died at the age of 56 from pancreatic cancer. Donal McCann Donal McCann (7 May 1943 – 17 July 1999) was an Irish stage, film, and television actor best known for his roles in the works of Brian Friel and for his lead role in John Huston's last film, ""The Dead"". McCann was"
"the TV show."" In June 2010, it was reported that plans were made to create a film titled ""Die Hard 24/7"", which would serve as a crossover between ""24"" and the ""Die Hard"" franchise, with Sutherland to reprise his role as Jack Bauer alongside Bruce Willis' John McClane. However, these plans never came to fruition, with the studio instead opting to create the film ""A Good Day to Die Hard"". In November 2010, executive producer Gordon revealed that a ""work in progress"" screenplay was being read by Fox, but that the film did not yet have a green-light or fixed"
"Masculinities"" writes, ""The African-American character is typically the sidekick to the white hero and isolated from the African-American community. He thus offers his skills and bravery for the preservation of mainstream (white) cultural values."" Another combination of the action film and the buddy film in the 1980s and another biracial reversal was the 1988 film ""Die Hard"" in which Bruce Willis's heroic character John McClane is supported by the black cop Al (played by Reginald VelJohnson). In the early 1990s, the masculine figure in films became more sensitive, and some buddy films ""contemplated a masculinity that required sensitive relations between"
"Stephen Pearlman Stephen Pearlman (February 26, 1935 – September 30, 1998) was an American theatre, film and television actor, known for starring in the films ""Die Hard with a Vengeance"" and ""Pi"". He also played Zampano in the Broadway musical ""La Strada"". After graduating from Dartmouth College in 1954, Pearlman immediately become a theatre actor making his New York stage play debut in ""The Threepenny Opera"" in 1959. He has also acted in ""La Strada"" in 1969, in which he played one of the leading roles. He also appeared in many film and television roles such as ""Die Hard with"
"Peter Facinelli Peter Facinelli (born November 26, 1973) is an American actor and producer. He starred as Donovan ""Van"" Ray on the Fox series ""Fastlane"" from 2002 to 2003. He played Dr. Carlisle Cullen in the film adaptations of the ""Twilight"" novel series, and is also known for his role as Mike Dexter in the 1998 film ""Can't Hardly Wait"". Facinelli was a regular on the Showtime comedy-drama series ""Nurse Jackie"", portraying the role of Dr. Fitch ""Coop"" Cooper. He portrayed Maxwell Lord on the first season of the TV series ""Supergirl"". Facinelli grew up in Ozone Park, Queens, the"
"phone. She still resides in Los Angeles and is separated from, but still married to McClane. In ""Live Free or Die Hard"", cyber-terrorist Thomas Gabriel notes that McClane and Holly are divorced. in ""A Good Day to Die Hard"", she is mentioned by John when John and Jack are on their mission. Lucy McClane is John's daughter, born in 1982. She is played as a child by Taylor Fry in the first ""Die Hard"" film and as an adult by Mary Elizabeth Winstead in the fourth film ""Live Free or Die Hard"" and the fifth film ""A Good Day to"
"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"
"Mike McGlone Michael McGlone (born August 10, 1972 in White Plains, New York) is an American actor, singer, songwriter, and comedian. He is perhaps best known as the film noiresque spokesman for GEICO insurance posing rhetorical questions in the vein of Robert Stack or Rod Serling, which are then acted out in humorous fashion. McGlone's best-known movie credits include two castings as writer/actor/director/producer Edward Burns's brother in the 1995 movie ""The Brothers McMullen"" and 1996's ""She's the One"" with Jennifer Aniston. He's also had large supporting roles in ""One Tough Cop"" and ""The Bone Collector"". On TV, McGlone's credits include"
"to use the unintentional scene in the final film. ""Die Hard"" was Alan Rickman's first feature film role. Rickman was cast after producer Joel Silver saw his performance as Vicomte de Valmont in the Broadway run of Les Liaisons Dangereuses. For his death scene, he was dropped on a green screen set. The shot used was the first take; Rickman was dropped sooner than he had been told he would be, so the look of fear on his face is genuine. The DVD text commentary track reveals that the shooting script did not originally include the meeting between McClane 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"