Die Hard 2 (1990)
- The original script for Die Hard 2 was written over a decade before production finally began in 1990.
- The incredible score for Die Hard 2 was composed in just a few weeks after the original composer dropped out.
- During the filming of Die Hard 2, Bruce Willis improvised one of the most famous lines in the movie.
Die Hard 2 is a 1990 American action thriller directed by Renny Harlin, the sequel to John McTiernan's 1988 classic. Bruce Willis returns as John McClane, who arrives at Washington Dulles International Airport on Christmas Eve to meet his wife's incoming flight, only to discover that a rogue military unit has seized the airport's communication systems and air traffic control, holding all incoming planes โ including Holly's โ hostage by preventing them from landing while their fuel runs out. The terrorists' objective is to facilitate the escape of a deposed Central American dictator being extradited to the United States.
The airport setting gave McClane a larger, more public stage than the Nakatomi tower, and the film delivered several spectacular set pieces including a snowmobile chase on the runway, a fight in the airport's baggage system, and the climactic ignition of a fuel trail that destroyed a plane in mid-takeoff. Die Hard 2 earned $240 million worldwide on a $70 million budget.





