On Christmas Eve, 1988, a group of German criminals took hostages at an L.A. office party. The making of story behind DIE HARD is bigger than the Nakatomi… 1/43 - ThreadSky

alltherightmovies.com • 64 days ago

On Christmas Eve, 1988, a group of German criminals took hostages at an L.A. office party. The making of story behind DIE HARD is bigger than the Nakatomi…

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alltherightmovies.com•64 days ago

In 1979, police officer-turned-author Roderick Thorp wrote Nothing Lasts Forever, inspired by a dream he had of armed assailants chasing a man through a building. Inspired by The Towering Inferno, 20th Century Fox bought the rights to adapt it for the big screen.

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alltherightmovies.com•64 days ago

In 1987, writer Jeb Stuart was hired to adapt Nothing Lasts Forever. He was struggling with it until one night, after a row with his wife, he came up with the idea of a making the lead a man who should've said sorry to his wife but didn’t, and something really bad happens.

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alltherightmovies.com•64 days ago

Once the script was greenlit Joel Silver was brought in to produce. He told Stuart “It’s nothing personal, but you’re fired. I love the script, but I don’t know you and I gotta make a movie fast”. Silver brought in Steven E. de Souza, who he’d worked with on Commando.

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alltherightmovies.com•64 days ago

Paul Verhoeven was approached to direct, having just done RoboCop. Silver said “he was so hot” but he passed. Predator director John McTiernan was then approached but also passed, saying he didn’t like the main character of the terrorist angle.

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alltherightmovies.com•64 days ago

Silver didn’t give up and kept sending McTiernan the script. Eventually he said “if you let me figure out how to make this fun, I’ll do it.” A key decision was to use the terrorists as a front for robbers as, McTiernan reasoned, “robbers are fun.”

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alltherightmovies.com•64 days ago

In 1968, Frank Sinatra starred in a film called The Detective - an adaptation of the novel to which Nothing Lasts Forever was a sequel. As such, Fox were contractually obliged to offer 72 year old Sinatra the role of McClane. He declined saying “I’m too old and too rich.”

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panchovertigen.bsky.social•63 days ago

Michael Kamen had enjoyed a great deal of success the previous year when he scored the first Lethal Weapon film, but what makes the difference is the way Kamen makes use of existing classical music and song melodies as an integral part of his score.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTFyUfutAko

queencatia.com•59 days ago

Die Hard was, is, and shall always be a Christmas movie! It's a classic that holds up all these years later...
Love you taking the time to unpack and share all these glorious Die Hard tales! 🧸