25 Things You Didn't Know About Die Hard With A Vengeance

8. One Of The Proposed Scripts Later Became Speed 2: Cruise Control

The longest gap between Die Hard sequels is obviously the twelve year one that occurred between Die Hard with a Vengeance and Live Free or Die Hard, but the five years it took to make the third entry was still substantial. Die Hard 2 released only a couple of years after the first film, so why did it take so long for the third to get made?

The answer (at least partly) lies in the countless Die Hard imitators and rip-offs that emerged in the wake of the first film's premiere, the most notable being Under Siege.

The Steven Seagal film was essentially just "Die Hard but at sea", which posed a huge problem for writer James Haggin, who at that point had been developing a script for Die Hard 3 where John and Holly would be stuck at sea on their honeymoon cruise following a terrorist hijacking. (Just how unlucky can they get?)

In a somewhat hilarious turn of events, Haggin's script eventually inspired the plot for Speed 2: Cruise Control, one of the most reviled action movie sequels ever released.