Die Hard (film series) film would ever get made. The character John McClane also appears in the 1993 film "Loaded Weapon 1", which is also portrayed by Bruce Willis, in a brighter version. "Die Hard" is adapted from the 1979 novel "Nothing Lasts Forever" by Roderick Thorp. "Die Hard 2" was adapted from the 1987 novel "58 Minutes" by Walter Wager. "Die Hard with a Vengeance" was adapted from a script called "Simon Says" by Jonathan Hensleigh, which was also briefly considered to become the script for "Lethal Weapon 4". The hook in Hensleigh's screenplay that captured the attention of director John McTiernan was
John A. Willis the Tony Awards and the New York University Hall of Fame, and was on the national board of the University of Tennessee Clarence Brown Theatre. In 2007, he was honored by his alma mater, Milligan College, when they dedicated the John Willis Wing of the new Gregory Center for Liberal Arts. John A. Willis John Alvin Willis (October 16, 1916 – June 25, 2010) was an American theatre and film book editor, theatre awards producer, actor, and educator. He is best known for editing the long-running annual publications "Theatre World" and "Screen World", and for producing the annual Theatre World