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In real life, Alan Rickman was two years older than Jeremy Irons, despite the fact that in the "Die [...]	D
Although he wasn't hired for the film, Alan Rickman is still credited as playing Hans Gruber (in McC [...]	D
The original casting of Simon's terrorist crew was with a mix of Soviet and Warsaw Pact baddies, and [...]	D
The dump truck driven by John McClane has "Thur & Samson Earth Movers, Inc." on the door. The locati [...]	D
Originally, there was already a sequel planned to Drago d'acciaio (1992) as part of a 3 picture deal [...]	D
Each of the first three "Die Hard" movies has a connection and/or reference to at least one of the t [...]	D
The producers planned to blow up the Hutchinson River Parkway tollbooth structure for a scene in the [...]	D
The last time producers Joel Silver and Lawrence Gordon were involved with the Die Hard franchise.	D
The first Die Hard film to feature a female villain. Both the subsequent sequels also have female vi [...]	D
When the bomb goes off in the Bonwit Teller department store, there is an "Atlantic Courier" truck p [...]	D
The total value of the 97,000 gold bars that are currently stored in the building in real life is ab [...]	D
This was John McTiernan's first real experience shooting in New York City.	D
The school kids "trapped" by the madman's plot are singing "Row, Row, Row Your Boat." It's the same [...]	D
Sam Phillips, a pop singer in real life, was invited to screentest for the role of Katya based upon [...]	D
Jeremy Irons later appeared in Comic Relief 2003: The Big Hair Do (2003) as Severus Snape, a role or [...]	D
Was originally set up as a starring vehicle for Brandon Lee when the script was called Simon Says.	D
On the Trappola di cristallo (1988) Blu-ray commentary, production designer Jackson De Govia notes t [...]	D
Just like in Trappola di cristallo (1988), the life of McClane (Bruce Willis) is saved by a gun tape [...]	D
In the original Trappola di cristallo (1988), the villains are assumed to be terrorists, but turn ou [...]	D
The park, on top of the Wall Street station in the film, was a vacant lot that was made into a park [...]	D
When Zeus attempts to unlock the handcuffs that he and McClane are both cuffed to the bomb on the sh [...]	D
The racial argument is partially based on La parete di fango (1958).	D
A novelization by Deborah Chiel was first published on May 28, 1995. The novel is written in Third P [...]	D
The answer to the "St Ives" riddle gives the number to reach Simon Gruber. This is also the first nu [...]	D
John McTiernan declined to direct Batman Forever (1995) in order to make this film.	D
In the movie Ispettore Callaghan: il caso Scorpio Ã¨ tuo! (1971) the children while being held hos [...]	D
The name Simon Gruber uses as an alias is "Peter Krieg". "Krieg" is German for "war".	D
John McClane doesn't kill a bad guy until over an hour into this movie. That is longer than any othe [...]	D
John McTiernan liked the 1961 Mack truck so much that he bought the truck after the movie finished.	D
In carrying on the Die Hard Christmas theme, when the bomb tech is defusing the bomb at the school, [...]	D
In the later part of the movie, McClane ridicules Targo (played by Nick Wyman), for his size, by cal [...]	D
Originally titled "Simon Says" (where Zeus was scripted as a woman) and was considered by Joel Silve [...]	D
There is an alternative ending to this movie. Simon actually got away, smuggling the gold out of the [...]	D
Even though the film's domestic box-office was only about $100 million, its massive international bo [...]	D
Just one year later In the 1996 film, "The Long Kiss Goodnight", the Hennessy family was played by t [...]	D
The Russian title for "Die Hard" in the first three movies is, "A Hard Nut to Crack".	D
Trailer narrated by Hal Douglas.	D
On the DVD commentary, director John McTiernan mentions that Dick Cheney appears in a scene. He actu [...]	D
Interestingly, Mathias Targo (Nick Wyman) is furious to discover that the containers are filled with [...]	D
Each film in the Die Hard series contains a key scene involving an elevator.	D
The sandwich board that Bruce Willis wore while filming in Harlem was originally blank, rather than [...]	D
This movie opened in U.S. theaters on May 19, 1995. Coincidentally, only 6 days earlier on May 13, A [...]	D
Known screenwriter Michael Cristofer, who plays Agent Bill Jarvis in this movie, wrote the screenpla [...]	D
At 47 mins.) When Simon is standing atop a building watching the cops and FBI scatter to look for th [...]	D
When Simon, posing as the city engineer, meets Ricky Walsh, you can see a blurry, but visible red si [...]	D
After the Dam explosion, when the water first reaches Bruce Willis and the reversing truck, you can [...]	D
There is a false myth about how early script for this film was later changed into Speed 2: Cruise Co [...]	D
The 2003 R1 DVD version includes the original ending showing McClane and Simon playing a game of "ch [...]	D
Jeremy Irons plays the brother of Alan Rickman's character from the first film. Rickman went on to a [...]	D
Samuel L. Jackson said that Zeus "is the closest character to my personality of any that I've played [...]	D
Jeremy Irons is the only Academy Award winner to play a Die Hard main villain.	D
This is the first Die Hard movie in which John McClane is a police officer for the actual city in wh [...]	D
This is the second film in which Samuel L. Jackson's character steals a kid's bike for "police busin [...]	D
Jeremy Irons claimed that someone described his hairstyle in the film as "mid-life crisis".	D
As in Trappola di cristallo (1988), the German spoken in this movie is mostly grammatically incorrec [...]	D
The film was shot under the working title "Die Hard: New York."	D
Despite not being set at Christmas, it still references Trappola di cristallo (1988) and 58 minuti p [...]	D
Jonathan Hensleigh bought all the Mother Goose books for inspiration for Simon's lines.	D
The production built a fountain in Tompkins Square Park just for the movie.	D
When McClane says "Cheer up. Things could be worse. I was working on a nice fat suspension, smoking [...]	D
Andrew G. Vajna took over as producer when Bruce Willis fell out with original producers Joel Silver [...]	D
Jeremy Irons, the main villain, does not physically appear until fifty minutes into the movie.	D
The chase scenes in the tunnel were filmed in New York City Water Tunnel Number 3, an unfinished aqu [...]	D
You would actually need 480 dump trucks to steal all the gold from the Federal Reserve.	D
Despite Zeus (Samuel L. Jackson) handling a gun twice in the film, he never fires either of them.	D
Sam Phillips said that the sequence where Katya uses a knife to slice up a security guard until he i [...]	D
Jonathan Hensleigh was detained by the FBI after completing the script for the film because he knew [...]	D
Giving Zeus the dollar bill was improvised.	D
One of the tasks that Simon sets for John McClane and Zeus Carver involves the "St Ives" riddle. St [...]	D
Some of the bad guys are big, but some of them are standing on boxes to loom over McClane even more.	D
In the movie Hellboy: The Golden Army (2008), Seth MacFarlane based the voice of Johann Krauss on Je [...]	D
Katya never says a word and when she and Simon are about to have sex, and throughout the movie if on [...]	D
Buena Vista International owned the overseas rights through their distribution deal with Cinergi. As [...]	D
The original script had McClane reciting the classic dad joke "Simon, you're under a vest" during th [...]	D
Danny Cannon was approached to direct, but he was more interested in making Dredd - La legge sono io [...]	D
Sir Sean Connery was director John McTiernan's first choice for the role of Simon Gruber. He turned [...]	D
The film depicts Zeus' nephews. The brothers were brothers in real life - Aldis Hodge and Edwin Hodg [...]	D
When McClane enters the Federal Reserve, and encounters Karl disguised as a security guard, Karl tri [...]	D
Sergeant Yates, a police detective and minor character on South Park (1997), was based on Larry Bryg [...]	D
There are two solutions to the water jug riddle in the park, at the elephant fountain. To place exac [...]	D
There is a mathematical formula that can be applied to the St. Ives problem, called the Geometric Pr [...]	D
It was calculated that the value of the gold in this movie was worth approximately $100 billion. In [...]	D
Simon Gruber is revealed as formerly being a part of a special crack English speaking German militar [...]	D
According to John McTiernan, "It's very dangerous to have an actor drive a car. Accidents happen eve [...]	D
Other Bruce Willis movies that feature a stutterer are The Sixth Sense - Il sesto senso (1999) and I [...]	D
This was shown on television on Tuesday, March 15, 2016, the same night that Donald Trump and Hillar [...]	D
Some of the violent and bloody scenes from the film had to be cut down for an R rating after John Mc [...]	D
Jeremy Irons replaced David Thewlis.	D
Sam Phillips (Katya) was relieved her character was mute throughout the movie. "But as time went on, [...]	D
The subway scene, when Zeus is held at gunpoint by the police officer, is more or less the same scen [...]	D
Trucks aren't allowed on the F.D.R., as stated in the movie by Detective Connie Kowalski (Colleen Ca [...]	D
When McClane is dropped off in Harlem, he expected to be dead in four minutes. When the gang members [...]	D
Bonnie Bedelia declined to return for this third installment.	D
Jonathan Hensleigh lived right above where one scene was shot on the Upper West Side. He set it ther [...]	D
According to director John McTiernan, "hundreds of girls were hanging out windows to watch Willis" s [...]	D
While the highway scenes are supposed to take place on the Saw Mill Parkway in Westchester County, N [...]	D
Jeremy Irons and Bruce Willis previously played men who embark on a passionate affair with a younger [...]	D
The sex scene between Jeremy Irons and Sam Phillips was added in at the last minute because John McT [...]	D
To both compare and contrast the Gruber brothers, John McTiernan employs several parallels to expres [...]	D
Brandon Lee was actually supposed to star in this movie when it was called Simon Says... It was rewo [...]	D
On the DVD commentary, screenwriter Jonathan Hensleigh says the idea for the film's plot came to him [...]	D
The radioplay TKKG - Folge 183: BlindgÃ¤nger im Villenviertel makes many references to the Die Har [...]	D
Shane Black turned down an offer to write the screenplay after the original "Troubleshooter" draft w [...]	D
In the DVD commentary, Jonathan Hensleigh says that the first hour of the film is his original "Simo [...]	D
The filmmakers really did pull the pick-up truck off the bridge with a boat.	D
According to filmmakers, one of the biggest problems they faced during development of several possib [...]	D
Anthony Peck (Ricky Walsh) was also in Trappola di cristallo (1988). He was credited as "Young Cop".	D
Highest grossing movie worldwide of 1995.	D
Simon calls a radio announcer to report that there is a bomb in a school. The name of the announcer [...]	D
The water bottle riddle came from a problem on an exam Jonathan Hensleigh couldn't figure out.	D
When the feds are questioning McClane and Zeus and looking for a link between Simon and McClane, the [...]	D
The final fight between McClane and Simon takes place at a truck stop in Quebec. The scenes were fil [...]	D
Early in his acting career, Jeremy Irons was a co-presenter of the fondly-remembered British pre-sch [...]	D
The main theme for this movie is "Johnny I Hardly Knew Ye", an Irish song from 250 years ago. This w [...]	D
When John McClane and Zeus get into the taxi (after the confrontation with the youths), in the back [...]	D
Simon's helicopter is a SUD Aviation Aerospatiale SA341G Gazelle. This is the first helicopter to fe [...]	D
Even though this is the third Die Hard film, it is the first that takes place in the same city in wh [...]	D
McClane's watch is on the inside of his wrist. That's how Bruce Willis actually wears his watch.	D
This is the only Die Hard movie in which Bruce Willis does not have sole above-the-title billing.	D
On April 19, 1995, exactly one month before the movie was scheduled to be released, the Alfred P. Mu [...]	D
During its Pay-Per-View run in 1996, a bonus featurette followed the presentation of the movie, whic [...]	D
John McTiernan was unavailable to direct the second Die Hard because he was filming The Hunt for Red [...]	D
Samuel L. Jackson's look in the film was Jackson's idea after he'd done extensive research on his ch [...]	D
The film was heavily censored for UK release to give it a 15 certificate so it could be seen by the [...]	D
Director John McTiernan acknowledged the errors concerning the gold in the dump trucks and its respe [...]	D
The character "Dr. Fred Schiller" was a reference to the eighteenth century German poet Friedrich Sc [...]	D
First version of the screenplay was based on a speculative script by James Haggin called "Troublesho [...]	D
John McClane's line that he was "smoking cigarettes and watching Captain Kangaroo" is a lyric from T [...]	D
Samuel L. Jackson had sandbags tied to his feet so he would sink in the underwater shots.	D
It took four tries to get the Mercedes to flip. They eventually had to put an air cannon under it.	D
McClane and Carver successfully disarm a bomb and hand it off to some cops who are actually the bad [...]	D
When posing as a city engineer, Simon Gruber (Jeremy Irons) uses a heavy American accent to fool his [...]	D
In the scene where Zeus is trying to get out of going with McClane on the trip across the city, he ( [...]	D
The scenes involving the subway bombing were filmed in an abandoned nuclear missile silo in Charlest [...]	D
Each of the Gruber brothers, Simon and Hans, have a man named "Karl" on his team. Karl in Trappola d [...]	D
After surviving the boat explosion, John McClane calls his wife Holly from a payphone on the advice [...]	D
When Zeus Carver (Samuel L. Jackson) picks up the gold bar at the Federal Reserve, he says "Damn, th [...]	D
The stuntmen aren't acting when they're running for their lives from the subway car, it was travelli [...]	D
Film debut of Kevin Chamberlin (Charles Weiss).	D
This is the only Die Hard film in which John McClane didn't risk his life to save Holly or either of [...]	D
The first "Die Hard" movie to be based on an original screenplay. Trappola di cristallo (1988) was b [...]	D
Similarities between the first screenplay and Trappola in alto mare (1992) were not the only holdup [...]	D
The only Die Hard film where John McClane fights bad guys in his own jurisdiction as a police office [...]	D
WILHELM SCREAM: As they are driving through Central Park, Zeus asks McClane if he is aiming for the [...]	D
John McTiernan says a bus came six inches from crashing into Samuel L. Jackson's head. About half of [...]	D
The bridge from which McClane and Zeus jump to the container ship in the harbor is the Cooper River [...]	D
In the wake of the Oklahoma City bombing, Twentieth Century Fox took out trade press ads defending t [...]	D
There is a war reference in the first three Die Hard movies. This film's reference is when the FBI a [...]	D
Laurence Fishburne was the original choice to play Zeus Carver, but turned down the part. When he re [...]	D
First Die Hard to not show John in the first scene.	D
During the initial phone conversation between Simon and the police, when Simon calls back, he asks Z [...]	D
Bruce Willis and Samuel L. Jackson appeared in Palle in canna (1993), Pulp Fiction (1994), Unbreakab [...]	D
McClane only has two bullets at his disposal to kill Simon in the finale of the film. He also only h [...]	D
McClane driving a car through Central Park was based on a fantasy Jonathan Hensleigh had about being [...]	D
John McTiernan called the plot "frail and outrageous. I hope people enjoy its ridiculousness."	D
Both Bruce Willis and Jeremy Irons were in media in the 1980s titled "Moonlighting". Irons starred i [...]	D
The studio told screenwriter Jonathan Hensleigh to remove the scenes with McClane walking around Har [...]	D
Bruce Willis was born in the former West Germany.	D
During a press conference to promote the film's release, Bruce Willis pre-emptively told reporters t [...]	D
During the scene when the FBI mentions Hans Gruber (Alan Rickman), Inspector Walter Cobb (Larry Bryg [...]	D
In the original edit, when the school bomb starts leaking onto Charlie, he says "Corn syrup?". In th [...]	D
Bruce Willis suggested Samuel L. Jackson for the movie. Jackson was thrilled. He says he's "seen the [...]	D

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