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Die Hard is a 1988 American action film directed by John McTiernan and written by Jeb Stuart and Steven E. de Souza based on the 1979 novel Nothing Lasts Forever by Roderick Thorp. It stars Bruce Willis, Alan Rickman, Alexander Godunov, and Bonnie Bedelia, with Reginald VelJohnson, William Atherton, Paul Gleason, and Hart Bochner in supporting ...
Although the film (re-titled Die Hard) was altered to be a stand-alone film with no connections to Thorp's novel, and does not follow the source material very closely, some of its memorable scenes, characters, and dialogue are adapted directly from the book. Some of the biggest changes in the film included the older hero of the novel becoming ...
Die Hard is a heartfelt movie about coming home for the holidays ... A sequel to his book The Detective (made into a moderately successful Frank Sinatra picture in 1968), ...
Adapted from Roderick Thorp's 1979 novel, Nothing Lasts Forever, the project that became Die Hard was reportedly offered to everyone from Frank Sinatra and Al Pacino to Sylvester Stallone and ...
"Yes, Die Hard is a Christmas movie. And you can't convince me otherwise." Let us tell you why. The story literally begins on Christmas Eve. The opening scene shows John McClane (Bruce Willis ...
The Detective is a 1968 American neo-noir [3] crime drama film starring Frank Sinatra.Directed by Gordon Douglas and produced by Aaron Rosenberg, it is based on the 1966 novel of the same name by Roderick Thorp.
Billed as "an adult look at police life", The Detective went on to become one of the highest-grossing films of 1968 and one of the strongest box-office hits of Sinatra's acting career. A sequel, Nothing Lasts Forever, was published in 1979, and was later adapted into the film Die Hard.
Al Roker and Dylan Dreyer are weighing in on the long-standing debate over whether “Die Hard” can be considered a Christmas movie. For years, fans have been divided on the topic.