Live Free or Die Hard (released as Die Hard 4.0 outside North America) is a 2007 American action thriller film, and the fourth installment in the Die Hard film series. The film was directed by Len Wiseman and starred Bruce Willis as John McClane. The film's name was adapted from New Hampshire's state motto, "Live Free or Die". In the film, McClane attempts to stop cyber-terrorists who hack into government and commercial computers across the United States with the goal of starting a "fire sale" that would disable key elements of the nation's infrastructure. The film was based on the 1997 article "A Farewell to Arms" written for Wired magazine by John Carlin.
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Directed by | Len Wiseman |
Produced by | Michael Fottrell |
Screenplay by | Mark Bomback |
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Music by | Marco Beltrami |
Cinematography | Simon Duggan |
Edited by | Nicolas De Toth |
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Distributed by | 20th Century Fox |
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Running time | 129 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $110 million |
Box office | $383.5 million |
Live Free or Die Hard was released in the United States on June 27, 2007. The film earned total international box office gross receipts of $383.4 million, making it the highest-grossing film in the Die Hard series. Unlike the prior three films in the series, the U.S. rating was PG-13 rather than R.
Screenplay
The FBI responds to a brief computer outage at its Cyber-Security Division by tracking down top computer hackers who had been on a watch list. The FBI asks New York City Police Department detective John McClane to bring in Matthew "Matt" Farrell, one of the hackers. McClane arrives at Farrell's residence just in time to save Farrell from assassins working for Mai Linh, who works for her love interest, Thomas Gabriel.
On the way to Washington, D.C., with McClane, Farrell reveals that he had been contacted by Mai (under the guise that she was working for corporate security) and that she had paid him to write an algorithm that could crack a specific security system for white hat purposes. Meanwhile, Gabriel orders his own crew of hackers to take control of the transportation grids and the stock market, while also nationally broadcasting a message threatening the United States. Farrell recognizes this as the start of a "fire sale", which is an attack designed to target the nation's infrastructure that is reliant on computerized systems. McClane and Farrell are driven to FBI headquarters, but Mai poses as a dispatcher and reroutes the convoy into the path of an assault helicopter. McClane fends off the attackers and destroys the helicopter by launching a car into it.
Gabriel initiates a second broadcast showing a simulated explosion of the U.S. Capitol building, causing a public panic. Farrell guesses that Gabriel's next target is likely the power grid, and he and McClane drive to a utility superstation in West Virginia. They find a team led by Mai taking over the station. McClane and Farrell kill the entire team, and Mai falls to her death in an elevator shaft following a struggle with McClane. Enraged over Mai's death, Gabriel seizes control of the natural gas distribution system and redirects all of the gas into the station in an attempt to kill McClane and Farrell. McClane and Farrell escape before the station explodes, but much of the eastern seaboard of the United States and Canada is left without power.
McClane and Farrell then travel by helicopter to the home of fellow hacker Frederick "Warlock" Kaludis. Warlock identifies the piece of code Farrell wrote as a means to access data at a Social Security Administration building at Woodlawn, Maryland. Warlock tells McClane and Matt that Gabriel is a talented programmer and was a top security expert for the U.S. Department of Defense. Gabriel tried to alert the political and military leadership to critical weaknesses that made America's network infrastructure vulnerable to cyberwarfare, but his unorthodox methods led to his dismissal. Warlock runs a traceroute and manages to identify Gabriel's location, but Gabriel detects the intrusion. Gabriel taps into their connection and reveals that he has located McClane's estranged daughter, Lucy, and intends to kidnap her. McClane obtains an image of Gabriel which he relays to the FBI. It is revealed that the Woodlawn building is actually a NSA facility (designed by Gabriel himself when he worked for the NSA) intended to back up the nation's personal and financial records in the event of a cyber attack. Gabriel's attack on the FBI prompted a download of financial data to Woodlawn, which would allow him to siphon off as much money as he wanted to and disappear without a trace.
McClane and Farrell race to the Woodlawn facility, where Farrell discovers that Gabriel's men are downloading financial information. He manages to encrypt the data before he is captured. McClane kills more of Gabriel's henchmen. Gabriel then takes Farrell and Lucy (who had been kidnapped earlier) with him as his team flees. McClane pursues Gabriel, hijacking his semi. Gabriel accesses the communication system of a F-35B Lightning II and, impersonating the flight controller, orders the pilot to attack the truck McClane is driving. McClane manages to destroy the fighter jet (sliding down one of the wings in the process) and then makes his way to a nearby warehouse. There, Gabriel demands that Farrell de-encrypt the financial data; when Farrell refuses, Gabriel shoots him in the knee and threatens to kill Lucy if he does not comply. McClane arrives and kills one of Gabriel's henchmen, but the final remaining henchman (Emerson) shoots him in the right shoulder and Gabriel holds him at gunpoint.
Gabriel positions himself behind McClane, putting the barrel of the gun in his shoulder wound. McClane then moves the barrel of the gun towards Gabriel's torso and pulls the trigger, the bullet traveling through McClane's shoulder and hitting Gabriel in the chest, killing him. Farrell grabs a handgun and kills Emerson. An FBI tactical response team arrives and secures the scene. Afterwards, McClane tries to discourage the romantic feelings developing between Farrell and Lucy.
- Bruce Willis as Detective John McClane
- Justin Long as Matthew "Matt" Farrell
- Timothy Olyphant as Thomas Gabriel, a former Defense Department analyst who leads a group of cyber-terrorists systematically shutting down the entire U.S. infrastructure. Olyphant filmed his role within three weeks.
- Mary Elizabeth Winstead as Lucy Gennero-McClane, McClane's estranged daughter. The inclusion of McClane's daughter was previously considered for the third film, and she was in the video game Die Hard: Vendetta. It was speculated that Willis' real life daughter Rumer, was a prime candidate for the part of McClane's daughter.
- Maggie Q as Mai Linh, Gabriel's second-in-command and lover
- Kevin Smith as Frederick "Warlock" Kaludis. Smith made uncredited rewrites to the scenes in which he appears.
- Cliff Curtis as Miguel Bowman, Deputy Director of the FBI Cyber Security Division
- Jonathan Sadowski as Trey
- Edoardo Costa as Emerson
- Cyril Raffaelli as Rand
- Yorgo Constantine as Russo
- Željko Ivanek as Agent Molina
- Christina Chang as Taylor
Additional characters include Gabriel's henchmen: Chris Palmero as Del, Andrew Friedman as Casper and Bryon Weiss as Robinson. Chris Ellis appears as Jack Sclavino, McClane's superior officer. Sung Kang makes an appearance as Raj, a desk officer of FBI's cyber division. Matt O'Leary appears as Clay, a hacker who unwittingly gives Gabriel a code, allowing his house to be destroyed. Jake McDorman plays a small role as Jim, Lucy's boyfriend. Rosemary Knower has a cameo as Mrs. Klaudis, Frederick's mother.
Script and title
The film's plot is based on an earlier script entitled WW3.com by David Marconi, screenwriter of the 1998 film Enemy of the State. Using John Carlin's Wired magazine article entitled "A Farewell to Arms", Marconi crafted a screenplay about a cyber-terrorist attack on the United States. The attack procedure is known as a "fire sale", depicting a three-stage coordinated attack on a country's transportation, telecommunications, financial, and utilities infrastructure systems. After the September 11, 2001 attacks, the project was stalled, only to be resurrected several years later and rewritten into Live Free or Die Hard by Doug Richardson and eventually by Mark Bomback.
Willis said in 2005 that the film would be called Die Hard 4.0, as it revolves around computers and cyber-terrorism. IGN later reported the film was to be called Die Hard: Reset instead. 20th Century Fox later announced the title as Live Free or Die Hard and set a release date of June 29, 2007 with filming to begin in September 2006. The title is based on New Hampshire's state motto, "Live Free or Die", which is attributed to a quote from General John Stark. International trailers use the Die Hard 4.0 title, as the film was released outside North America with that title. Early into the film's DVD commentary, both Wiseman and Willis note a preference for the title Die Hard 4.0.
Visual effects
For the visual effects used throughout the film, actor Bruce Willis and director Len Wiseman stated that they wanted to use a limited amount of CGI. One VFX producer said that "Len was insisting on the fact that, because we’ve got Transformers and other big CG movies coming out, this one has to feel more real. It has to be embedded in some kind of practical reality in order to give it that edge of being a Die Hard." Companies such as Digital Dimension, The Orphanage, R!ot, Pixel Magic, and Amalgamated Pixels assisted in the film's visual effects.
Digital Dimension worked on 200 visual effects shots in the film, including the sequence that shows characters John McClane and Matt Farrell crouching between two cars as another car lands on top of the other cars. To achieve this effect, a crane yanked the car and threw it in the air onto the two cars that were also being pulled by cables. The shot was completed when the two characters were integrated into the footage of the car stunt after the lighting was adjusted and CGI glass and debris were added. In the same sequence, John McClane destroys a helicopter that several of Gabriel's henchman are riding in by ramming it with a car. This was accomplished by first filming one take where one of Gabriel's henchman, Rand, jumps from the helicopter, and in the next take the car is propelled into the stationary helicopter as it is hoisted by wires. The final view of the shot overlays the two takes, with added CGI for the debris and moving rotor blades. The company also assisted in adding cars for traffic collisions and masses of people for evacuations from several government buildings.
The Orphanage developed a multi-level freeway interchange for use in one of the film's final scenes by creating a digital environment and a 1,000-foot (300 m) long spiral ramp that was built in front of a bluescreen. When a F-35 jet is chasing McClane on the freeway, a miniature model and a full-size prop were both built to assist in digitally adding the jet into the scene. The nine-foot model was constructed from November 2006 through February 2007. When the jet is shown hovering near the freeway, editors used the software 3D graphics program Maya to blur the background and create a heat ripple effect.
Filming and injuries
Filming for Live Free or Die Hard started in downtown Baltimore, Maryland on September 23, 2006. Eight different sets were built on a large soundstage for filming many scenes throughout the film. When recording the sound for the semi trail
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