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Hans Gruber is a fictional character and the main antagonist of the 1988 action movie Die Hard. He is portrayed by Alan Rickman . Gruber is a thief and criminal mastermind from West Germany who holds an office building hostage to steal $640 million in negotiable bearer bonds .
He is driven to Nakatomi Plaza by a limo driver, Argyle, who offers to wait for McClane in the garage. While McClane washes himself, the tower is seized by the German radical Hans Gruber and his heavily armed team, including Karl and Theo. Everyone in the tower is taken hostage except for McClane, who slips away, and Argyle, who remains ...
Its most famous appearance was in the 1988 action film Die Hard, where, while still under construction, it portrayed the fictional Nakatomi Plaza (also known as Nakatomi Tower), a building owned by a fictional Japanese conglomerate. [16] The damaged version of the tower was made via a scale model special effect. In 2018, to celebrate the film's ...
Hans Gruber ($19.99) — Sazon-seared grouper, mango roasted corn salsa on a Nakatomi tower, elote nuggets with cilantro sour cream and green herb coulis * Santa's Little Helper ($12.99) — Warm ...
The reluctant hero in the series. John McClane is a New York City cop who finds himself taking on terrorists and saving his loved ones. In Die Hard, he gets invited to his wife's Christmas Party at Nakatomi Plaza in Los Angeles when the building she is in is under attack by terrorists led by Hans Gruber.
Die Hard is an American action film series and media franchise that originated with Roderick Thorp's 1979 novel Nothing Lasts Forever.All five films revolve around the main character of John McClane (Joe Leland in the original novel), a police detective who continually finds himself in the middle of a crisis where he is both the only hope against disaster and the culprit's target.
Die Hard 2 (also known by its tagline Die Harder or Die Hard 2: Die Harder) [Note 1] is a 1990 American action thriller film directed by Renny Harlin, written by Steven E. de Souza and Doug Richardson, co-produced by Joel Silver, and starring Bruce Willis [5] as John McClane alongside Bonnie Bedelia, William Sadler, Art Evans, William Atherton, Franco Nero, Dennis Franz, Fred Thompson, John ...
In fact, I think Nakatomi Tower [from Die Hard] is in there, as well as the CN Tower, weirdly. So, Canada wins!" Photo courtesy of 20th Century Studios/Marvel Studios.