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The Jackal is a 1997 American action thriller film directed and produced by Michael Caton-Jones and starring Bruce Willis, Richard Gere, Diane Venora and Sidney Poitier in his final theatrically released film role. It is a loose remake of the 1973 film The Day of the Jackal, which was based on the 1971 novel of the same name by Frederick Forsyth.
[1] [2] In 1988, he starred as John McClane in Die Hard (1988), a film that spawned four sequels that earned him international recognition as an action hero. [3] In the following years, Willis lent his voice for the video game Apocalypse (1998), [4] the comedy film Look Who's Talking (1989), and its sequel Look Who's Talking Too (1990).
In early drafts of the script of Live Free or Die Hard, John Jr. was set to be in the film. [2] In A Good Day to Die Hard, Jack is a CIA agent stationed in Russia to extricate Yuri Komarov, a political prisoner who had evidence against Viktor Chagarin in a file at Chernobyl. To get close to Komarov, he kills a Russian millionaire and asks to ...
‘Die Hard’ is not a Christmas movie!” Willis declared. “It’s a g--damn Bruce Willis movie.” In the decades since the action film premiered, many have weighed in on whether or not they ...
Not Die Hard. The film was an immediate hit, grossing over $140 million worldwide and ranking among the Top 10 highest-earning films of that year. And Willis knew it was going to be a hit after ...
Essential to the success of Die Hard is Bruce Willis as John McClane, an unlikely casting choice that made the Moonlighting heartthrob one of the highest-paid movie stars in the world—and, let's ...
Die Hard 2 is the last film in the series to feature the involvement of De Souza, Bedelia, VelJohnson, Atherton, Silver, and Gordon. Silver and Gordon fell out with each other and Willis after filming concluded, delaying the production of a third film—Die Hard with a Vengeance (1995).
The Bruce Willis action vehicle Die Hard was released in 1988 to mixed responses. As film critic Roger Ebert wrote in his original review, "The name of the movie is 'Die Hard,' and it stars Bruce ...