Die Hard with a Vengeance is a 1995 American action thriller film and the third in the Die Hard film series. It was co-produced and directed by John McTiernan (who directed Die Hard), written by Jonathan Hensleigh, and stars Bruce Willis as New York City Police Department Lieutenant John McClane, Samuel L. Jackson as McClane's reluctant partner Zeus Carver, and Jeremy Irons as Simon Gruber. It was released on May 19, 1995, five years after Die Hard 2, becoming the second highest-grossing film at the worldwide box-office that year. It received mixed reviews. It was followed by Live Free or Die Hard in 2007 and A Good Day to Die Hard in 2013.
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Directed by | John McTiernan |
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Screenplay by | Jonathan Hensleigh |
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Music by | Michael Kamen |
Cinematography | Peter Menzies Jr. |
Edited by | John Wright |
Production company | Cinergi Pictures |
Distributed by | 20th Century Fox (United States, Canada, and Japan) Buena Vista International (International) |
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Running time | 128 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $90 million |
Box office | $366.1 million |
Screenplay
In New York City, the Bonwit Teller department store is destroyed by a bomb during the morning commute. The New York City Police Department gets a call from "Simon" ordering them that suspended police officer Lt. John McClane be dropped in Harlem wearing a sandwich board with "I Hate Niggers" written on it, and threatening to detonate another bomb if they do not comply. They collect a hung-over McClane and follow Simon's instructions. McClane is saved from an angry group of Black men by Zeus Carver, a nearby shop owner. McClane and Carver escape and return to headquarters, where Simon calls again and makes more bomb threats if McClane and Carver do not follow his instructions.
Simon sends the two on a series of children's riddles. He tells them to reach the Wall Street subway station 90 blocks south, within 30 minutes to stop a bomb planted on a Brooklyn-bound 3 train. McClane boards the subway while Carver drives. Though McClane locates the bomb and throws it off the train, it still detonates, derailing the train and sending it through the station with minimal injuries due to Carver's warnings. As McClane and Carver regroup with the police, they are met by FBI agents, who reveal Simon is Peter Krieg, a former Colonel in the East German People's Army and a mercenary-for-hire.
Krieg is after McClane as Krieg's birth name is Simon Peter Gruber, the brother of Hans Gruber whom McClane had killed years earlier in Los Angeles. Simon calls the police, knowing the FBI is there, to inform them that he has placed a bomb in a NYC-area public school that is rigged with a radio detonator triggered by the police band. Simon tells them that he will give McClane and Carver the school's location if they continue to play his game. While McClane and Carver set off on Simon's next task, the police organize all the city's public works to begin searching schools, using 9-1-1 to coordinate activities.
As McClane solves Simon's riddles, he recognizes that Simon is using the school bomb distraction to draw the police away from Wall Street. They arrive too late to find that Simon and his agents used the destruction of the subway station to dig into the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and steal $140 billion of gold bullion in dump trucks. They follow the trucks to an aqueduct in the New York City Water Tunnel No. 3, and McClane has Carver continue on Simon's games.
Within the tunnel he kills some of Simon's men, discovering they have a roll of quarters on them. Simon destroys a cofferdam, flooding the tunnel, but McClane escapes through a vent, ending up near Carver. They notice that the roll of quarters would pay for a toll road, and follow the trucks to a tanker vessel in the Long Island Sound. They sneak aboard, but realise too late that it is a trap and are captured.
Simon confirms McClane's previous suspicions that the school bomb alibi was just a trick to distract police before handcuffing the two to the real bomb. He then states that he is going to destroy the tanker, redistributing the bullion across the Sound, which would destroy the economies of the world. Before leaving, McClane jokingly asks Simon for some aspirin. Much to Simon's amusement, he happens to have a bottle of aspirin and leaves it for McClane. After Simon and his gang depart the vessel, McClane uses a cable splinter to free himself and Carver. They manage to escape before the bomb detonates, sinking the tanker.
As McClane and Carver are debriefed by the police, McClane says he "knows" Simon and reports that none of the bullion was on the tanker. McClane finds the bottle of aspirin came from a hotel just inside the Quebec border. McClane, Carver, and the police launch an attack on a warehouse near the hotel where Simon and his men are in the process of distributing the wealth and planning their escape. The rest of the men are captured, while Simon and his girlfriend Katya attempt escape in a helicopter, firing upon McClane. McClane shoots an overhead power line so that it falls onto the helicopter, crashing it and killing all aboard. With the bullion located, Carver and McClane share a few jokes, before Carver convinces McClane to call his wife.
- Bruce Willis as John McClane
- Jeremy Irons as Simon Gruber
- Samuel L. Jackson as Zeus Carver
- Graham Greene as NYPD Detective Joe Lambert
- Colleen Camp as NYPD Detective Connie Kowalski
- Larry Bryggman as NYPD Inspector Walter Cobb
- Anthony Peck as NYPD Detective Ricky Walsh
- Nick Wyman as Mathias Targo
- Sam Phillips as Katya
- Stephen Pearlman as Dr. Fred Schiller
- Kevin Chamberlin as Charles Weiss
Additional cast members include Simon's goons: Richard Council as Otto, Mischa Hausserman as Mischa, Phil Theis as Erik, Robert Sedgwick as Rolf, Sven Torvaid as Karl, Timothy Adams as Gunther, Tony Halme as Roman, Greg Skrovic as Kurt, Bill Christ as Ivan, Gerrit Vooren as Nils and Willis Sparks as Klaus. Michael Cristofer and Charles Dumas appear as agents Bill Jarvis and Andrew Cross respectively. Aldis Hodge and Michael Alexander Jackson appear as Raymond and Dexter respectively, Zeus's nephews caught in the school bomb panic. Hodge later appeared in 2013's A Good Day to Die Hard as Lt. Foxy.
Development
Like most of the films in the series, the premise of this film was repurposed from a stand-alone project. Various scripts were written for Die Hard 3; a number of them were ultimately rejected by Bruce Willis on the grounds that they felt like retreads of the action movies that came in the wake of the first film. One script, originally titled Troubleshooter, had McClane fighting terrorists on a Caribbean cruise line, but was rejected for being too similar to Under Siege. Troubleshooter was later repurposed for Speed 2: Cruise Control.
The script ultimately used was intended for a film entitled Simon Says, originally positioned as a Brandon Lee vehicle and the character of Zeus was written with an actress in mind. Warner Bros. bought the script and rewrote it as a Lethal Weapon sequel. Warner Brothers later put the script in turnaround, only to be purchased by Fox and rewritten as a Die Hard film.
Andy Vajna replaced Joel Silver and Larry Gordon as the producer on the film due to a fall-out with Willis. As a result, Vajna's company, Cinergi, acquired foreign rights to the film. Disney and Summit Entertainment bought Cinergi's rights in a number of territories, while Fox retained domestic rights.
Alternative endings
An alternative ending to the one shown in the final movie was filmed with Jeremy Irons and Bruce Willis, set some time after the events in New York. It can be found on the Special Edition DVD. In this version it is presumed that the robbery succeeds, and that McClane was used as the scapegoat for everything that went wrong. He is fired from the NYPD after more than 20 years on the force and the FBI has even taken away his pension. Nevertheless, he still manages to track Simon using the batch number on the bottle of aspirins and they meet in a bar in Germany.
In this version, Simon has double-crossed most of his accomplices, gotten the loot to a safe hiding place somewhere in Europe, and has the gold turned into statuettes of the Empire State Building in order to smuggle it out of the country; but he is still tracked down to his foreign hideaway (this version is very similar to Alec Guinness' character's situation in the British heist film The Lavender Hill Mob made some 45 years earlier in which the stolen gold was turned into Eiffel Tower paperweights).
McClane is keen to take his problems out on Simon, who he invites to play a game called "McClane Says". This involves a form of Russian roulette with a small Chinese rocket launcher that has had the sights removed, meaning it is impossible to determine which end is which. McClane then asks Simon some riddles similar to the ones he played in New York. When Simon gets a riddle wrong, McClane forces him at gunpoint to fire the launcher, which fires the rocket through Simon, killing him. McClane had been wearing a flak jacket (which was the answer to the final riddle: "What could he have brought to the meeting to save his life?"), so even if Simon had pointed the launcher the right way, it is likely that the relatively low-velocity rocket would not have caused McClane enough injury to prevent him from shooting Simon.
In the DVD audio commentary, screenwriter Jonathan Hensleigh claims that this version was dropped because the studio thought it showed a more cruel and menacing side to McClane, a man who killed for revenge rather than in self-defense. The studio was also displeased with the lack of action in the scene, feeling that it did not fit as a "climax" and therefore chose to reshoot the finale as an action sequence at a significant monetary cost. Hensleigh's intention was to show that the events in New York and the subsequent repercussions had tilted McClane psychologically. This alternative ending, set some time after the film's main events, would have marked a serious break from the Die Hard formula, in which the plot unfolds over a period of roughly 12 hours.
According to the DVD audio commentary, a second alternative ending had McClane and Carver floating back to shore on a makeshift raft after the explosion at sea. Carver says it is a shame the bad guys are going to get away; McClane tells him not to be so sure. The scene then shifts to the plane where the terrorists find the briefcase bomb they left in the park and which Carver gave back to them (in this version it was not used to blow up the dam). The film would end on a darkly comic note as Simon asks if anyone has a four gallon jug. This draft of the script was rejected early on, so it was never actually filmed. The rocket-launcher sequence was the only alternative ending to be filmed.
RCA Victor album
Michael Kamen returned to score the third film, again incorporating other material into his score (most notably "When Johnny Comes Marching Home", not included on the soundtrack album), but excerpts from his score for Die Hard 2 were tracked into the new film. The soundtrack was released by RCA Victor.
La-La Land album
In 2012, La-La Land Records released a limited edition two-disc soundtrack containing the Kamen score.
All tracks composed by Michael Kamen except where noted.
- Summer in the City – The Lovin' Spoonful (2:45) (by John Sebastian, Mark Sebastian & Steve Boone)
- Main Title (0:16) (cue deleted from final film)
- Goodbye Bonwits (6:28)
- John and Zeus (3:20)
- Taxi (1:51)
- Neat Bomb (2:11)
- Papaya King (5:19)
- 72nd Street Phone (3:18)
- Taxi Chase (5:08)
- The Subway, Pt. 1 (4:24) (final film version)
- The Subway, Pt. 2 (2:15) (final film version)
- Take a-nother Train (2:54)
- Feds (4:42)
- Rings a Bell (8:28) (features music from Ode to Joy by Ludwig van Beethoven)
- Infiltration (5:33) (features music from Ride of the Valkyries by Wagner & When Johnny Comes Marching Home by Louis Lambert (Patrick Gilmore))
- Bank Invasion (4:15)
- Back to Wall Street (2:55)
- Fake Cops (1:42)
- The Federal Reserve (2:18) (features music from Daisy Bell by Harry Dacre & When Johnny Comes Marching Home)
- Bank Elevevator (2:54) (features music from When Johnny Comes Marching Home)
- Gold Room Aftermath (1:36)
- Panic (2:04)
- Aqueduct (2:10)
- Santa Claus (2:36)
- Yankee Stadium & School and Tunnel (3:42) (features music from When Johnny Comes Marching Home)
- Refrigerator Bomb (0:40)
- Surfing in the Aqueduct (2:29)
- Ticking Refrigerator (0:50)
- Mercedes Chase & School Assembly (3:14)
- Aftermath & Waiting and Falling (2:00)
- Hooking the Boat (5:45) (final film version)
- Bunny & Fire Drill (2:39)
- Running in the Halls (1:42)
- Bomb Goes into Hold (5:42)
- John Makes it Mad (1:39)
- Holly & Celebration (3:17) (features music from When Johnny Comes Marching Home)
- Oh, Canada! (Showdown with a Vengeance) (3:23) (features music from O Canada by Calixa Lavallée & Sir Adolphe-Basile Routhier)
- Johnny Comes Marching Home (End Credits) (1:45)
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