What city was the setting for the movie "Die Hard"?

"Die Hard" is a 1988 American action film directed by John McTiernan and written by Steven E. de Souza and Jeb Stuart. It follows off-duty New York City Police Department officer John McClane (Bruce Willis) as he takes on a group of highly organized criminals led by Hans Gruber (Alan Rickman), who perform a heist in a Los Angeles skyscraper under the guise of a terrorist attack using hostages, including McClane's wife Holly (Bonnie Bedelia), to keep the police at bay.

The corporate headquarters of 20th Century Fox, Fox Plaza in Century City, serves as the film's setting for both external and internal scenes. At the time of filming, the building was still under construction, and the setting for a scene of McClane exploring an unfinished floor complete with construction equipment was real. Production designer Jackson De Govia came up with the idea to use the building. The Nakatomi building's 30th floor, where the hostages are held, was a recreation of the Frank Lloyd Wright-designed house Fallingwater, including a large rock with water dripping from it.

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Nancy Mueller

I wish Die Hard had been called Die Hard 1 because I missed this. Of course, I haven’t seen it this century!

Armadillo

Todd Van Dell, it's hard having a day job before getting back to the future. Fox had two lives just on set. It was all made possible by a little light reading on time travel and the car of course 😂.

GONavarini

Silly question, lowering the standard of the game.

erik hughes

Corey Taylor, YES, it is ABSOLUTELY a Christmas movie, as it takes place around Christmas time - it even starts at a Christmas party where his estranged wife works.

erik hughes

Todd Van Dell, actually, Bruce Willis appeared in "Blind Date" (1987) before "Die Hard" (with uncredited appearances in "The First Deadly Sin" (1980) and "The Verdict" (1982), and played Tom Mix in "Sunset" (1988)), and Alan Rickman had an uncredited role in the film "Wetherby" (1985).

Spencer

Don't this writers get sick of sitting on their lazy behinds and watching TV and movies? Spectator, amateur writers are destroying this site with their lazy, substandard content.

Todd Van Dell

Has the distinction of being the first movie for both Bruce Willis AND Alan Rickman. In fact, Bruce was still under contract to the television series Moonlighting, as David Addison during the filming of Die Hard. That's why most of the movie's scenes were shot at night. Bruce was playing David Addison during the day. Much the same way Michael J. Fox's scenes in Back to the Future were filmed at night: he was still under contract to play Alex P. Keaton on Family Ties during the day, and thus had to play Marty McFly at night. (At least for the first movie.)