{"id":21121,"date":"2018-10-18T05:00:15","date_gmt":"2018-10-18T09:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=21121"},"modified":"2018-10-15T17:27:43","modified_gmt":"2018-10-15T21:27:43","slug":"die-hard-the-ultimate-visual-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=21121","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Die Hard&#8221; &#8211; The Ultimate Visual History!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2018\/z101818diehard_visualhistory.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"634\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On November 13, 2018, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1608879739?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=craizabls&amp;camp=1789&amp;linkCode=xm2&amp;creativeASIN=1608879739\">Die Hard: The Ultimate Visual History<\/a> will be released!\u00a0 Featuring a forward by <em>Die Hard<\/em> director John McTiernan and written by James Mottram and David S. Cohen, this book will live up to its title&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Yippee-ki-yay . . . Discover the explosive story behind the creation of the Die Hard saga in this visually stunning, behind-the-scenes look at the adventures of detective John McClane.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Thirty years after the release of the groundbreaking action film,\u00a0<i>Die Hard: The Ultimate Visual History\u00a0<\/i>takes an in-depth look at the entire Die Hard saga, from the original movie through to the hit sequels, comics, video games, and other extensions of hero John McClane\u2019s story.<\/p>\n<p>Loosely based on Roderick Thorp\u2019s novel\u00a0<i>Nothing Lasts Forever<\/i>,\u00a0<i>Die Hard<\/i>, released in 1988, saw\u00a0<i>Moonlighting<\/i>\u00a0star Bruce Willis seamlessly make the transition from TV success to movie stardom in a film so taut, explosive, and full of suspense that it would come to define the action movie genre for decades to come. Directed by John McTiernan (<i>Predator<\/i>),\u00a0<i>Die Hard<\/i>\u00a0also starred revered British stage actor Alan Rickman who turned lead villain Hans Gruber into a presence so deliciously malevolent, audiences didn\u2019t know whether to love him or hate him.<\/p>\n<p>For the first time,\u00a0<i>Die Hard: The Ultimate Visual History\u00a0<\/i>tells the complete story of the making of\u00a0<i>Die Hard<\/i>\u00a0and its sequels, through exclusive interviews with the cast and crew of each film and a wealth of rare and unseen imagery, including set photography and concept art. Also exploring\u00a0<i>Die Hard<\/i>\u00a0comics, video games, and other merchandise, this book will tell the full story of the saga and its remarkable thirty-year legacy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1608879739?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=craizabls&amp;camp=1789&amp;linkCode=xm2&amp;creativeASIN=1608879739\">this link to Amazon<\/a> to see pages from the book and perhaps even place an order!\u00a0Yippee-ki-yay, indeed!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On November 13, 2018, Die Hard: The Ultimate Visual History will be released!\u00a0 Featuring a forward by Die Hard director<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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":[52,17,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-celebs","category-movies"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21121","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=21121"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21122,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21121\/revisions\/21122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}