Charlize up for LGBT remake
Don't worry its not happening. yet
https://wegotthiscovered.com/movies/charlize-theron-star-femaledriven-die-hard-remake/
Die Hard has been remade numerous times starring the likes of Steven Seagal, Dwayne Johnson, Harrison Ford, Kurt Russel (w Seagal! again), Anna Nicole Smith (probably the closest to the original), etc.
If they remade this movie and called it anything but Die Hard, nobody would care. People might even be interested based on Theron's star power. Call it Die Hard though and certain populations are sure to lose their mind.
Instead of remaking Die Hard maybe they could instead re-adapt the original novel Die Hard was based on I.E. Nothing Lasts Forever by Roderick Thorpe.
That way they could remake Die Hard without…..remaking Die Hard.
I read the book.
It was pretty good, the cop was a father trying to save his daughter.
Surprisingly the novel includes the scene where the cop jumps off the side of the building tied to the fire hose. I assumed that scene was only in the movie because it seemed like such a purely Hollywood manufactured action scene...
It's been years since I read the book, but the most fascinating difference to me -- spoiler alert, obviously-- is that after the Hans Gruber character dies (I think he's called Red Tony in the book?) the McClane character (also different name in the book) has by this point switched sides, and completes Tony's mission. To make it less confusing, I'll use the movie names.... Hans Gruber is not a thief, but a revolutionary, and he wants to rob Nakatomi Corp. and throw the money from the roof to the people. Initially McClane is out to stop him, but as he learns more about him, and about Nakatomi, he sides with Gruber, who he has killed, McClane gets the money and throws it from the roof.
I may be misremembering some aspects of this, but it's a fascinating book, and the changes made when adapting it turned it into something even better. One of those rare time the movie is better than the book; Jackie Brown comes to mind as another example.
Didn't they already do that and called it The Last Boy Scout?
shareThey could call it Lie Hard, especially if there's some tribbing in the film.
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