Die Hard with a Vengeance

Die Hard with a Vengeance
Theatrical release poster
Directed byJohn McTiernan
Screenplay byJonathan Hensleigh
Based onCharacters
by Roderick Thorp
Produced by
Starring
CinematographyPeter Menzies Jr.
Edited byJohn Wright
Music byMichael Kamen
Production
companies
Distributed by20th Century Fox (United States, Canada and Japan)[1]
Cinergi Productions (International)[a]
Release date
  • May 19, 1995 (1995-05-19) (United States)
Running time
128 minutes[2]
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$90 million[4]
Box office$366.1 million[4]

Die Hard with a Vengeance is a 1995 American action film directed and produced by John McTiernan, from a screenplay written by Jonathan Hensleigh, and starring Bruce Willis as John McClane. It is the third installment in the Die Hard film series. The film also stars Jeremy Irons and Samuel L. Jackson, and features Graham Greene, Colleen Camp, Larry Bryggman and Sam Phillips.

In the film, NYPD Lieutenant John McClane is embroiled in a plot by a mysterious terrorist calling himself “Simon” (Irons), who extorts the city of New York by threatening to detonate several bombs unless McClane solves a series of games scattered across the city. McClane reluctantly partners with a shopkeeper named Zeus Carver (Jackson), and learns the terrorists plot to steal the gold bullion of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

Adapted from a spec script written by Hensleigh, Die Hard with a Vengeance was the first film in the series not directly based on a literary source material, and the first not to be produced by Joel Silver and Lawrence Gordon, instead being produced by Andrew G. Vajna’s Cinergi Pictures. Principal photography took place in New York City and South Carolina.

The film was released on May 19, 1995, and it initially received mixed reviews and became the highest-grossing film of the year. The film was preceded by Die Hard 2 and was later followed by Live Free or Die Hard and A Good Day to Die Hard.

  1. ^ a b "Die Hard with a Vengeance script". Archived from the original on October 26, 2016. Retrieved October 25, 2016.
  2. ^ a b "Die Hard with a Vengeance". British Board of Film Classification. August 10, 1995. Archived from the original on April 15, 2018. Retrieved April 14, 2018.
  3. ^ "Buena Vista International". Archived from the original on June 17, 2020. Retrieved June 17, 2020.
  4. ^ a b "Die Hard: With a Vengeance (1995)". Box Office Mojo. Archived from the original on June 30, 2021. Retrieved December 1, 2008.


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