10 Movies Totally Changed For Overseas Audiences
7. Die Hard Didn't Have German Terrorists In Germany
John McTiernan's classic 1988 action thriller Die Hard launched the career of Bruce Willis into the stratosphere and has spawned countless imitations in which a lone hero fights against incredible odds.
However, the film's most enduring legacy is featuring the film debut of the then-unknown Alan Rickman as the film's iconic antagonist Hans Gruber.
In the original US version of the film, Gruber leads a band of thieves masquerading as a gang of West German ecological terrorists seeking the release of their members from prisons around the world.
However, due to the threat of real-life terrorist groups in Germany at the time of the film's release, the German version of the film renamed the terrorists with British sounding names and made them Irish instead.
They also added a backstory explaining the group were former IRA members who had become mercenaries.
This change had the added benefit of covering up the fact that, as none of them could speak German, the actors portraying the terrorists were speaking total gibberish throughout the entire film.