25 Things You Didn't Know About Die Hard With A Vengeance
21. There Was A SECOND Alternate Ending (That Was Never Shot)
Fox
But wait, there's more!
Although only two endings were filmed for Die Hard with a Vengeance, there was a third that was used in an earlier draft of the film.
In this version, McClane and Zeus swim to safety after the explosion on the boat, bemoaning that Simon got away. McClane wryly says that he's not so sure, with the scene shifting to the terrorists on the plane, now in possession of the briefcase bomb the pair had disarmed in Central Park. Simon asks if anyone has a four gallon jug, and then dies in the explosion, but this version was rejected relatively early in the film's production.
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.
