"That led to more scenes at the house with the housekeeper," he explained, "it led to building up the idiot newscaster, and it led to some of the great scenes between Holly and Hans Gruber." Why don't you go back into the script and see if you can find more stuff for all the other characters to do?' de Souza told Slash Film in 2018, "John McTiernan came to me and said, 'We have at least another week of this overlap. "So after the first week," screenwriter Steven E. Willis did end up pulling double duty on Moonlighting and Die Hard at first.
Now, if it doesn't make $100 million it's a failure." "A good opening weekend in those days was $7 million. "It was nothing more than the fact that a film I'd done, Blind Date, had a good opening," he said.
As it turns out, if you think about John McClane now, you can't imagine anybody doing it but me, right?"Īnd being a blockbuster newbie didn't prevent 20th Century Fox from paying Willis a then-eye-popping $5 million. " Cybill Shepherd got pregnant and they shut down the show for 11 weeks-just the right amount of time for me to run around over at Nakatomi Tower."Īcknowledging that he was at least the fifth choice for the film, Willis quipped, "I think I was the 50th choice! They went to everybody.All of those guys probably would have been great John McClanes.
"As it turns out, a miracle happened," he recalled to Entertainment Weekly in 2007. The list of actors who passed on the role of McClane almost included Willis. He was still making Moonlighting in 1987 and didn't think he'd be able to mess with that schedule.
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