Things You Never Knew About 'Die Hard'

What a title: Die Hard. It's everything you want an action movie to be: memorable, repeatable, and completely renegade. Directed by action maven John McTiernan (Predator, The Hunt for Red October) and written by Jeb Stuart loosely based on a Roderick Thorp novel, the movie was released in July of 1988. Ever since, lesser mortals have tried to duplicate it. But you can't duplicate Bruce Willis.Movie magic is mostly luck. It's the result of the right people being in the right place at the right moment. We should consider ourselves lucky Willis and McTiernan found one another. It's been decades since they told the story of a Christmastime terrorist plot in Los Angeles, and the off-duty New York City cop who saved everyone's ass. Here's a look back at Die Hard from behind the scenes. These are 20 things you never knew about the production: