The thing is, how this story got set that Die Hard was gonna be Commando 2, I just don’t know where the rumor came from. The studio had bought the rights to the novel when they made the Sinatra movie in the late '60s, and they also bought the right of first refusal to any sequel. In that movie you can see he’s divorced from his wife and they’re trying to get back together.which is all very John McClane and Holly. None of that is true! That’s all bullshit! Die Hard is based on a novel called Nothing Lasts Forever by Roderick Thorpe, and it’s the sequel to a previous novel called The Detective which was made into a movie with Frank Sinatra.
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That story actually makes a lot of sense, but according to de Souza, it's full of malarkey.Ĭan you talk about how Commando 2 evolved into Die Hard?
"Commando" was a 1985 film starring Arnold Schwarzenegger as a former Delta Force member who is pulled out of retirement by the bad guys after they kidnap his daughter to force him to go on a mission for them. This sort of approach gets particularly convoluted when you have an instance like the third "Die Hard" film, "Die Hard With a Vengeance", which began life as one film and briefly became "Lethal Weapon 4" before ending up as "Die Hard 3".Īlong those lines, did the initial "Die Hard" film, which was based on a novel that was a sequel to an earlier novel that had itself already been turned into a movie (Hollywood can get complicated), also use a story that was meant for another film? Specifically, was the story of "Die Hard" originally meant for a sequel to "Commando"? Let's find out! In fact, the first four movies were all adaptations from novels or other screenplays. The world of the "Die Hard" films is a fascinating one because right up until the most recent "Die Hard" movie, none of the stories that made up the first four films originally began as stories about John McClane.