Live Free or Die Hard
The choice will be clear.
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Country
Production
Budget
$110 000 000
Box office
$383 531 541
Director
Actors
Scenario
Producer
Michael Fottrell, William Wisher, Arnold Rifkin
Camera operator
Simon Duggan
Composer
Artist
Patrick Tatopoulos, Patricio M. Farrell, Desma Murphy
Audition
Deborah Aquila, Tricia Wood
Editing
Nicolas De Toth, Mitchell E. Dauterive
Whole Team (450)
Whole Team (450)
Short description
John McClane is back and badder than ever, and this time he calls on the services of a young hacker in his bid to stop a ring of Internet terrorists intent on taking control of America's computer infrastructure.
What's left behind the scenes
- Filming period: September 23, 2006 – February 14, 2007.
- Kevin Smith filmed all of his scenes in five days.
- Kevin Smith filmed all of his scenes in 5 days.
- Bruce Willis performed most of his character's stunts himself.
- Jessica Simpson auditioned for the role of John McClane's daughter, but failed miserably.
- When McClane meets FBI agent Johnson, he asks, "What, another Johnson?" This is a reference to two FBI agents named Johnson from the first film.
- At an early stage of production, the film was titled "Tears of the Sun." Bruce Willis agreed to participate in the project on the condition that he could use this title for the 2003 film starring Monica Bellucci and Bruce Willis himself.
- Justin Timberlake was in negotiations to join the project; he could have landed the role of John McClane's son.
- Bruce Willis's stunt double, Larry Rippenkruger, was seriously injured during filming after falling from a height of eight meters. Production had to be suspended. Following the accident on the set of the fourth Die Hard installment, Larry spent several months in a clinic, where shattered bones in his wrists, face, and skull were replaced with titanium prosthetics.
- The game Gears of War is shown twice in the film — at the beginning, played by a guy, and on one of the monitors in Warlock's command center.
- The film is based on the article "A Farewell to Arms" by John Carlin.
- During the confrontation with McClane at the power station, Lynn's hair comes loose, but after she throws the detective out the window, her hair somehow briefly returns to a bun.
- At the 16th minute of the film, during the attack on McClane's car, the rear window is clearly open, and in the next shot, it is already closed.
- Director Kevin Smith played a hacker nicknamed Warlock. In the credits, the letter 'm' in his last name, Smith, flickers and gradually disappears, forming the word 'Sith.' Siths are characters from the Star Wars saga, of which both Smith and, judging by the basement surroundings, his character in the film, are avid fans.
- When John is driving the tractor-trailer behind the biohazard van, he hits several parked cars. The film clearly shows the truck sustaining significant damage on both sides during these collisions. A few minutes later, when the plane launches a missile at it, the tractor-trailer is shown completely undamaged.
- Bruce Willis’s stunt double, Larry Rippenkruger, was seriously injured during filming after falling from a height of eight meters. Filming had to be suspended. Following the incident on the set of the fourth "Die Hard" film, Larry spent several months in a clinic, where his fractured wrist, face, and skull bones were replaced with titanium prostheses.
- The French title of the film translates as "Die Hard 4.0: Return to Hell."
- At the 45th minute of the film, Cyril Raffaelli's character jumps out of a helicopter. As he falls onto a car, his headphones fly off, then he gets up and is suddenly wearing them again, which he later removes.
- In Matt's room, the music video for the song "I'm so sick" by Flyleaf is playing on the TV.
- Thomas Gabriel notes that McClane is 'always in the wrong place at the wrong time.' This was the tagline for the second installment of the series, Die Hard 2 (1990).
- The film is based on John Carlin's article "A Farewell to Arms."
- The name 'Továrek' that May Lin uses while disguised as an FBI agent is a Polish word meaning 'hot cow'.
- Director Kevin Smith played a hacker nicknamed WarLock. In the credits, the letter 'm' in his last name, Smith, flickers and gradually disappears, forming the word Sith. The Sith are characters from the "Star Wars" saga, a devoted fan of which Smith is, and, judging by the setting in the basement, so is his character in the film.
- Thomas Gabriel notes that McClane is "always in the wrong place at the wrong time." This was the tagline for the second installment in the "Die Hard" series, "Die Hard 2" (1990).
- Jessica Simpson auditioned for the role of John McClane's daughter, but she failed miserably.
- A Terminator figure falls onto Matt's keyboard. This is a nod to composer Marco Beltrami and executive producer William Wishart Jr.; the former wrote the music for the third Terminator film, while the latter worked on the first two.
- Justin Timberlake was in negotiations to join the project – he could have been cast as John McClane's son.
- During the chase after the biohazard van at 1:51:52, it is clearly visible that the truck crashes into a BMW E38, and the next frame shows the collision with a Mercedes E190 (w201).
- The barrel of the gun Thomas Gabriel points at Lucy McClane should be hot after being fired and should leave a burn mark on the girl's neck. But in the film, it remains cold.
- The film features the game Gears of War twice – at the beginning of the film, a young man is playing it, and in Warlock's command center on one of the monitors.
- A Terminator figurine falls onto Matt's keyboard. This is a nod to composer Marco Beltrami and executive producer William Wisher Jr.; the former wrote the music for the third Terminator film, and the latter worked on the first two.
- In Matt's room, a music video for Flyleaf's song 'I'm so sick' is playing on television.
- In the early stages of production, the film was titled "Tears of the Sun." Bruce Willis agreed to participate in the project on the condition that he could use this title for a 2003 film starring Monica Bellucci and himself.
- An early version of the script was set in the Caribbean Islands, where John McClane travels to find his daughter Lucy. The girl had grown up and works as a cabaret dancer. It turns out that McClane paid very little attention to not only his wife but also his daughter over the past 10 years. A Japanese man was threatening Lucy's life. In the script, McClane rarely used firearms, having only one pistol which he fired twice. The rest of the time was devoted to hand-to-hand combat.
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