A Die Hard Christmas Turns The Movie Into A Charming Bloody Storybook

A Die Hard Christmas Turns The Movie Into A Charming, Bloody Storybook

A Die Hard Christmas: The Illustrated Holiday Classic turned the 1988 action classic into a charming, if a tad violent, storybook.

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A Die Hard Christmas Turns The Movie Into A Charming Bloody Storybook

A Die Hard Christmas: The Illustrated Holiday Classic turned the iconic action movie into an adorable storybook. Die Hard had something of a convoluted path to the big screen and is adapted from the novel Nothing Lasts Forever by Roderick Thorp. This book was actually a sequel to Thorp’s gritty thriller The Detective, which was previously turned into a movie starring Frank Sinatra. A clause in Sinatra’s contract meant he had to be offered the movie first, but the legendary crooner had returned from acting by then.

Everyone from Burt Reynolds to Richard Gere was approached to play John McClane before Bruce Willis was cast. Die Hard is now a classic action movie that’s on heavy rotation during Christmas time, and from its perfect casting to the taut, lean direction from John McTiernan, it’s a hard film to fault. It also kicked off a franchise, with the third entry Die Hard With A Vengeance considered the best sequel while 2013’s A Good Day To Die Hard is easily the nadir. A sixth movie titled McClane has been in development for years now with Len Wiseman set to direct.

Die Hard is a movie positively glowing with famous scenes, characters and lines of dialogue, and it’s received all kinds of bizarre tie-ins over the years, like a coloring book. A Die Hard Christmas: The Illustrated Holiday Classic turned the movie into an unlikely storybook, breaking down the plot into adorable rhymes.

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A Die Hard Christmas: The Illustrated Holiday Classic was written by Doogie Horner with illustrations from JJ Harrison, and the storybook does an impressive job of boiling down the plot to the key beats. It starts with John McClane at the Nakatomi Plaza Christmas party and quickly escalates to Hans’ takeover. The story is relayed through rhymes like “But John killed Tony with the very small feet and sent him to the terrorists as a yuletide treat.” Harrison’s artwork is great and gives it a surprisingly innocent feel – which is uncut by the bloodshed and foul language.

A Die Hard Christmas: The Illustrated Holiday Classic depicts scenes like Takagi’s brain splatter following his execution or John pulling broken glass from his bare feet. While it is something of a novelty item that can’t beat the experience of actually watching Die Hard, there was clearly a lot of love and care put into making this storybook. For those obsessed with the movie, A Die Hard Christmas: The Illustrated Holiday Classic makes a good Christmas gift.

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