25 Things You Didn't Know About Die Hard With A Vengeance
12. It's One Of Only Two Die Hards To Have An Original Screenplay
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All bar two Die Hard films have adapted their screenplays from other material. The first film was based on the book Nothing Lasts Forever by Frederick Thorp, while the second was based on another novel, Walter Wager's 58 minutes. Even Life Free or Die Hard was based on other material, this time a John Carlin article published in Wired magazine, called "A Farewell to Arms".
The only two Die Hards to not be based on a novel or some other published material are Die Hard with a Vengeance and 2013's A Good Day to Die Hard.
WhatCulture's very own resident movie guy, Ewan has been working in the content creation biz for over 10 years now, having started as a freelance contributor to WhatCulture Gaming all the way back in 2015. After graduating with a First-Class Honours in History from Northumbria University in 2017 (where he won a prize for a totally killer dissertation on the Watergate years), Ewan took on the role of Comics Editor at WhatCulture and quickly developed WhatCulture Comics into one of the biggest superhero-focused channels on YouTube. He followed this with a brief hiatus at Screen Rant in 2021, where he worked across the Gaming and Film sections as a writer and editor, before returning to WhatCulture as a Senior Content Producer / Presenter in 2023. He started his own podcast, We Love Dad Movies, in 2022, and has contributed several written pieces to the Eisner-nominated comics website Shelfdust as well.
In his current role, Ewan incorporates his love of cinema, comic books, and history into written pieces and video essays for WhatCulture's Film & TV channel, as well as WhatCulture Gaming and WhatCulture Horror, with a particular focus on nineties-era Dad Movies, old school Westerns, and Golden Age Hollywood Noir. John Carpenter is his fave, and he thinks Batman Beyond should never have been cancelled. If that's your vibe, you'll probably like his stuff.
