30 Years Ago, Michael Bay Made the Perfect ‘Die Hard’ Follow-up With 2 Legendary Movie Stars
Every studio in Hollywood spent the late ’80s and ’90s chasing Die Hard, and most of them ended up making a pale imitation. Die Hard grossed over $140 million worldwide and permanently rewired how Hollywood thought about action movies by introducing the everyman hero template that every thriller for the next decade tried to replicate. Some movies came close, but most fumbled between the second and third acts.
