{"id":11426,"date":"2014-12-26T05:30:45","date_gmt":"2014-12-26T09:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=11426"},"modified":"2014-12-20T20:53:37","modified_gmt":"2014-12-21T00:53:37","slug":"30-things-you-might-not-know-about-die-hard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=11426","title":{"rendered":"30 Things You Might Not Know About &#8220;Die Hard&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2014\/z122614diehard_facts.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"430\" \/><br \/>\n<strong>Jennifer Wood<\/strong> and <a href=\"http:\/\/mentalfloss.com\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Mental_Floss<\/strong><\/a> present <a href=\"http:\/\/mentalfloss.com\/article\/60578\/30-things-you-might-not-know-about-die-hard\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>30 Things You Might Not Know About <em>Die Hard<\/em><\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Here are my three favorites&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h4>5. CLINT EASTWOOD PLANNED TO TAKE A STAB AT THE PART.<\/h4>\n<p>Originally, it was Clint Eastwood who owned the movie rights to <em>Nothing Lasts Forever<\/em>, which he had planned to star in in the early 1980s. That obviously never happened.<\/p>\n<h4>7. BRUCE WILLIS WASN\u2019T EVEN THE STUDIO\u2019S THIRD CHOICE FOR THE ROLE.<\/h4>\n<p>If <em>Die Hard <\/em>was to be a success, the studio knew they needed a bona fide action star in the part, so they set about offering it to a seemingly never-ending list of A-listers of the time. Rumor has it that Sylvester Stallone, Harrison Ford, Robert De Niro, Charles Bronson, Nick Nolte, Mel Gibson, Richard Gere, Don Johnson, Burt Reynolds, and Richard Dean Anderson (yes, MacGyver!) were all considered for the role of John McClane. And all declined it.<\/p>\n<h4>9. BRUCE WILLIS WAS BARELY EVEN SEEN ON THE MOVIE\u2019S POSTERS.<\/h4>\n<p>Because the studio\u2019s marketing gurus were unconvinced that audiences would pay to see an action movie starring the funny guy from <em>Moonlighting<\/em>, the original batch of posters for the film centered on Nakatomi Plaza instead of Willis\u2019 mug. As the film gained steam, the marketing materials were altered, and Willis was more prominent in the promos.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jennifer Wood and Mental_Floss present 30 Things You Might Not Know About Die Hard. Here are my three favorites&#8230; 5.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,51,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-crime","category-movies","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11426"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11428,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11426\/revisions\/11428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}