25 Things You Didn't Know About Die Hard With A Vengeance
6. There's A Reason It Took Five Years To Get Made
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Apart from Under Siege throwing the original plans for Die Hard 3 out the window, there were a few other issues that went on behind the scenes that delayed production on the sequel.
Following reported production troubles on Die Hard 2 and Predator 2, Fox decided to cease its working relationship with producer Joel Silver, who had been involved with both the first Die Hard sequel and the original, as had producer Larry Gordon. The two producers parted ways and proceeded to have a bit of a fight over Bruce Willis, who appeared in The Last Boy Scout in 1991 while Gordon was tapping the actor to appear in a different film.
Compounding problems further, Willis then had a falling out with Silver, which effectively ended his working relationship with both producers. This, combined with the aforementioned script troubles, meant it took five years for the third film to get made, with producer Andy Vajna replacing both producers after the fallout.
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.
