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Producers Lawrence Gordon and Joel Silver hired John McTiernan, whoвЂ™d helmed their action smash Predator the previous year, to direct. de Souza rewrote the role into John McClane, a younger, active NYPD detective, in California to see his estranged wife at her office Christmas party (heвЂ™s visiting his daughter in the book) when the high-rise is taken over by terrorists. SinatraвЂ™s original contract obligated the studio to offer him the role first, but he refused it (presumably to the relief of the filmmakers, as the Chairman of the Board was in his early 70s by then). Die Hard was based on a 1979 novel by Roderick Thorp entitled Nothing Lasts Forever - a sequel to his 1966 book The Detective, which had been adapted into a feature film starring Sinatra as New York cop turned P.I. вЂњIf an actor can star in an action film and be convincing to an audience,вЂќ he explained in a Video Review interview, вЂњthen he can do other types of films and then return to an action picture because the public has accepted him as a hero in the genre.вЂќ And Willis was in a power position for this particular action film though 20th Century Fox president Leonard Goldberg told the Times, вЂњWe reached out for Bruce Willis because we thought we had the potential of a major film which is a star vehicle,вЂќ the paper also reported that the studio вЂњdesperately needed a star for Die Hard вЂ¦ the script had been turned down by any number of actors, including Richard Gere and Clint Eastwood.вЂќ In the years since, the rumor mill has also had Burt Reynolds, Don Johnson, Harrison Ford, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and Sylvester Stallone passing on the script. What was he doing running around in an undershirt with a machine gun like Stallone?Д«ut he had a strategy. Why would Bruce Willis, known primarily for his work on ABCвЂ™s Moonlighting, who had already starred in two film flops (1987вЂ™s Blind Date and 1988вЂ™s Sunset), be any different? WhatвЂ™s more, he was a television comedy actor. Hollywood had recently watched Shelley Long, Don Johnson, and Bill Cosby try and fail to make the transition.

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What made the Die Hard deal newsworthy was that it was a $5 million payday for a TV actor, in a not-that-long-ago era when there was a world of difference between a TV actor and a movie star. But WillisвЂ™s deal wasnвЂ™t even the biggest of the summer of 1988 - as the same Times article noted, Sylvester Stallone was making somewhere north of $12 million for Rambo III. High-paycheck panic pieces are a reliable chestnut in entertainment journalism studio execs and agents had voiced these concerns about matching the rising costs of talent after Marlon Brando made his Superman deal ($4 million) and Dustin Hoffman made his for Tootsie ($5.5 million), as they would when Jim Carrey got $20 million for The Cable Guy in 1996, or when Keanu Reeves was paid $30 million for the two Matrix sequels. вЂњIвЂ™m not saying that my clients are entitled to 150 percent of what is being paid to Bruce Willis,вЂќ says legendary entertainment lawyer Bert Fields, вЂњbut if one hears that some other actor is getting a million dollars more than he was before, itвЂ™s only fair to try to get more from the studio for my clients.вЂќ вЂњIf Willis Gets $5 Million, How Much for Redford?вЂќ demanded a headline in the New York Times on February 16, 1988, sounding a note of confusion and panic that greeted news of Bruce WillisвЂ™s big payday for Die Hard, a new action picture from 20th Century Fox.

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