Skyscraper (2018 film) Intelligence") hasn't come up with a villain nearly as memorable as Alan Rickman's Hans Gruber. I know that comparison may seem unfair, but when you're ripping off "Die Hard" this shamelessly, it's kind of not." Skyscraper (2018 film) Skyscraper is a 2018 American action film written and directed by Rawson Marshall Thurber, and starring Dwayne Johnson, Neve Campbell, Chin Han, Roland Møller, Noah Taylor, Byron Mann, Pablo Schreiber and Hannah Quinlivan. The film follows Johnson as a former FBI agent who must rescue his family from a newly built skyscraper, the tallest in the world, after it is taken over
Die Hard and feel of how action movies going forward were made, and which further changed with the evolution of CGI effects exemplified by "The Matrix" (1999). Scott Tobias of "The Guardian" observed that none of these following films readily captured the complete effectiveness of the "Die Hard" story. In 2001, "Die Hard" was listed at #39 on AFI's "100 Years... 100 Thrills", a list of America's most heart-pounding films. In 2003, Hans Gruber was listed at #46 on "the AFI's 100 Years... 100 Heroes and Villains" list. It was selected by "Empire" magazine as #29 on their "500 Greatest Movies of