Die Hard 2: Book vs. Movie
Renny Harlin’s Die Hard 2 (1990) adapts Walter Wager’s 1987 thriller 58 Minutes into a John McClane story. An airport takeover leaves passenger planes circling without a safe way to land.
About the book and the movie
- Author
- Walter Wager
- Year
- 1987
- Pages
- 272Buy book
- Audiobook length
- 6 hr 49 minGet audiobook
- Narrator
- R.C. Bray
- Series
- Die Hard, book 2
NYPD captain Frank Malone is waiting at JFK for his daughter when terrorists disable the systems needed to land incoming aircraft. A winter storm prevents an easy diversion, and her plane has less than an hour of fuel remaining. With the passengers circling above him and demands coming into the control tower, Malone draws on his counterterrorism experience to find the people holding the airport hostage.
- Director
- Renny Harlin
- Writer
- Roderick Thorp, Steven E. de Souza, Walter Wager, Doug Richardson
- Year
- 1990
- Runtime
- 2 hr 4 minWatch on Amazon
- Cast
- Bruce Willis, Bonnie Bedelia, William Atherton, Reginald VelJohnson
- Genre
- action, action thriller, Christmas, Crime, Thriller
- IMDb
- View on IMDb
John McClane spots suspicious activity at Dulles Airport while waiting for his wife’s Christmas Eve flight. A former colonel and his commandos seize control of air traffic communications to secure the release of an extradited dictator, leaving arriving planes unable to land. Airport police resist McClane’s interference, but with Holly still in the air, he pursues the attackers through the terminal and the snow-covered airfield.
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