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There is a false myth about how early script for this film was later changed into Speed 2: Cruise Control (1997). Just like similar movie myths about how first Die Hard (1988) was originally Commando 2 script, or how this third Die Hard film was originally rejected Lethal Weapon 4 script, this is absolutely not true, and as movie news articles from early to mid 90's about production of third film reveal, the full story is lot more complicated. Because producer Joel Silver and 20th Century Fox wanted for third Die Hard film to take place on a ship, there were several scripts written by W. Peter Iliff between 1991 and 1992 for Die Hard 3 which would take place on cruise ship in Carribbean where John McClane and his wife are when it gets taken over by terrorists who threaten to blow it up with the bomb. Iliff, who just wrote Point Break (1991) which turned into huge hit and was one of the main reasons why he got the job of writing Die Hard 3, was actually re-writing some other spec script titled Troubleshooter by another writer James Haggin, which he wrote in late 1989 and sold to Largo Entertainment in March of 1990, but Fox bought it from them in 1991 because they thought it was good enough to be turned into Die Hard 3.Due to original script not being written as Die Hard film, it was taking lot of time for it to be re-written, but all the re-writes lead to other issues like constantly increasing budget due to all the big action scenes the script had, such as final battle between McClane and terrorists taking place while ship is sinking. Iliff was at his second re-write of the script when similar film titled Dreadnought starring Steven Seagal went into production at Warner Bros., and by the time Iliff did his third re-write to make sure their Die Hard 3 won't be similar to it, Dreadnought was re-titled first to Last To Surrender (because producers wanted three word title like Seagal's previous films had) and then to Under Siege (1992), Fox decided it was pointless to keep trying to make this version of third film. Ironically enough, before it was bought by Warner Bros for $ 1 million, J.F. Lawton's original 1990 spec script for Under Siege (titled Dreadnought) was offered to Joel Silver to be possibly re-written into Die Hard 3, but he refused, possibly because that spec was much more action packed (even lot more than the final film) and would need very high budget. He and Fox even bought another similar spec titled Supertanker just to shelve it to make sure it doesn't gets made before Die Hard 3 they were developing.Between 1993 and 1994 at least three more different versions of Die Hard 3 were written, one by John Milius which took place in jungle, one by Dough Richardson which took place in Los Angeles subways which get taken over by terrorists who are actually planning to rob federal reserve of the city, and one by John Fasano which took place across entire city (New York or L.A.) as McClane chases kidnappers who took his teenage daughter thinking she was the daughter of some rich industrialist, all of which were rejected, although the ending of Richardson's script was used for ending of Speed (1994), which Richardson confirmed in interviews. Finally, after Brandon Lee's death on set of The Crow (1994), Fox took another spec script Simon Says by Jonathan Hensleigh which was supposed to be Lee's next film, or possibly be re-written into sequel to Lee's Rapid Fire (1992), and after that one went through dozens of different re-writes by writers such as Lorenzo Semple Jr, David Shaber, Dan Bronson and others including Hensleigh and lot of changes, it was finally made into Die Hard With A Vengeance (1995).Original Troubleshooter script which was almost made into Die Hard 3 did went back to Largo Entertainment who attempted to make it again around 1994, but it was never made. Jan De Bont was the one who came up with story for Speed 2 and he wasn't even aware of this entire history about unmade Die Hard 3 on cruise ship, but according to John McTiernan, who wasn't even a fan of the entire idea of Die Hard 3 taking place on a ship, only things Fox did took from the scripts which were developed for it and re-used in Speed 2 were very few small similarities.

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