"I loved Virtua Cop so we ripped that off for Die Hard 2," he says. "I loved Crazy Taxi so we ripped that off for Die Hard 3. And I loved - and I still love - Robotron, so Die Hard 1 was a sort of ...

MOVIE: Die Hard with a Vengeance. LITERARY SOURCE: Simon Says, an original screenplay by Jonathan Hensleigh, who managed to hold on to the job of retrofitting the script into a Die Hard movie ...

Repurposed from a script called Simon Says, the film is a third-hand Die Hard movie, closely (albeit inadvertently) resembling Speed, the Die Hard-on-a-bus hit from 1994.

Part of the reason Die Hard With a Vengeance feels like a fresh take on the franchise is that it was not originally written as a Die Hard sequel.The film began as a spec script titled "Simon Says ...

John McClane’s adventure begins on the corner of 138th street and Lenox Avenue. The film’s antagonist is playing a twisted game of Simon Says with the police lieutenant. The villain has ...

EXCLUSIVE: As Hans Gruber, his brother Simon and several other supervillains can attest, it is hard to kill NYPD cop John McClane, despite that underwhelming last film.Fox is making a deal for ...

Die Hard 3 was going to be so much different, and I ... Simon Says was pitched after the success of 1992’s Rapid Fire, with Lee taking on the role of NYPD officer Alex Bradshaw and the ...

The follow-up to Die Hard isn't as perfect as the original, but it does have the advantage of sporting more airplane heist action.. You can stream Die Hard 2 (1990) on Hulu and Disney+. Where to ...

And sure, Die Hard came out in the summer, but so did Miracle on 34th Street. ‘Die Hard’ has Christmas music in the score It’s hard to argue that a movie with Christmas carols in it is not a ...

Made for $28 million, 'Die Hard' went on to gross over $140 million worldwide, ... Simon is a Los Angeles-based journalist who covers film and TV. Follow Author. Oct 27, 2018, ...

Bruce Willis has weighed in: “Die Hard is not a Christmas movie. It’s a g--d--- Bruce Willis movie,” he said in July. And news media articles now chronicle the debate every December.