Live Free or Die Hard

Live Free or Die Hard
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Len Wiseman
Screenplay by	Mark Bomback
Story by	Mark Bomback David Marconi
Based on	"A Farewell to Arms" by John Carlin Characters by Roderick Thorp
Produced by	Michael Fottrell
Starring	Bruce Willis Justin Long Timothy Olyphant Cliff Curtis Maggie Q
Cinematography	Simon Duggan
Edited by	Nicolas De Toth
Music by	Marco Beltrami
Production companies	Cheyenne Enterprises Dune Entertainment Ingenious Film Partners
Distributed by	20th Century Fox
Release dates	June 12, 2007 (2007-06-12) (Tokyo) June 27, 2007 (2007-06-27) (United States)
Running time	129 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$110 million[1]
Box office	$388.2 million[1]

Live Free or Die Hard (released as Die Hard 4.0 outside North America) is a 2007 American action thriller film directed by Len Wiseman, and serves as the fourth installment in the Die Hard film series. It is based on the 1997 article "A Farewell to Arms"^[2] written for Wired magazine by John Carlin. The film's name references New Hampshire's state motto, "Live Free or Die".

In the film, NYPD Detective John McClane (Bruce Willis) attempts to stop a cyber-terrorist (Timothy Olyphant) who hacks into government and commercial computers across the United States with the goal of starting a "fire sale" cyber attack that would disable key elements of the nation's infrastructure. Justin Long, Cliff Curtis, Maggie Q, and Mary Elizabeth Winstead also star.

Live Free or Die Hard was released in the United States on June 27, 2007. The film grossed $388 million worldwide, making it the highest-grossing installment in the Die Hard series. It received positive reviews from critics. It is the only Die Hard film to be theatrically released with a PG-13 rating from the MPAA, although an unrated edition would later be made available on home media. A fifth film, A Good Day to Die Hard, was released in 2013.