Hans Landa has compared the character to Sherlock Holmes, due to the meticulous, cerebral way Landa searches for Jews and traitors. Landa was also compared to "Die Hard" villain Hans Gruber, played by Alan Rickman, due to his disdain for the inferior intellect of those around him. Hans Landa Standartenführer Hans Landa is a fictional character and the main antagonist in the 2009 Quentin Tarantino film "Inglourious Basterds". He is portrayed by Austrian actor Christoph Waltz. For his performance, Waltz won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor and the Best Actor Award at
Die Hard (film series) to overwhelmingly negative reviews and grossed $304.7 million worldwide. When the production was formally announced for the fifth film in the series, Bruce Willis expressed his desire to retire the John McClane character in a sixth and final film. In October 2015, returning director Len Wiseman, who previously directed "Live Free or Die Hard", shared the film's working title as "" on his Twitter feed. This, after stating that upon completion of "Die Hard 4.0", he and Willis discussed a type of prequel/sequel for the McClane character. Combined with the social media account, this drove speculation of some sort of