The book that this is based on is a prequel to the book that Die Hard was based on - when the Bruce Willis film was made, the characters' names were changed. I'm now picturing Frank Sinatra running around the skyscraper picking off terrorists and wisecracking...
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MY GOD. How great would that be? -Imagines Sammy Davis Jr. as Argyle-
The flickering needle jumps into red. New York Crawls out of it's bed.
Technically, a prequel was written (or filmed) after the book (or film) it's set before. A minor detail, of course.
But yes, after the book "The Detective" came the book "Nothing Lasts Forever" which Die Hard is based on, written by Roderick Thorp.
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What I would like to see is a new series of stories with both of these being a part of the same series rather than this with " 58 Minutes " by Walter Wager. " The Detective " with " Nothing Lasts Forever " by Roderick Thorp at last filmed together as the series they were meant to be as they are in the books is I think what a great film series would be.
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- Fezzik, " The Princess Bride " ( 1987 )
Damn, I'm finding it far too easy to picture Frank Sinatra shouting "Yippee ki ay, *beep*
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In the novel "Nothing Lasts Forever" the detectives daughter *not his wife as in Die Hard..* gets pulled through the window with the villain to their deaths.
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Thanks for ruining it for us, moron.
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It's a movie, people! It's not, nor is it meant to be, real life!
don't listen to him.
I started reading the book but didn't finish it. But the book is actually about a guy investiagating the murder of a woman's husband. I haven't seen this but after reading parts of the book why did they change it to the murder of a homosexual man?
Kelloway: Doyle, get in the car.
Doyle: But I ordered Onion Rings.
Kelloway: Doyle!
The murder of the gay man was in the book. In fact, that was the main dilemma to solve. The movie just streamlines everything.
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I'm curious if any elements of THE DETECTIVE will feature in DIE HARD: YEAR ONE, but I doubt the film-makers have even seen this film, much less read either of Thorp's books.
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DIE HARD: YEAR ONE.
Sounds about as exciting as a biography of Neil Armstrong that ends BEFORE his trip to the moon.