Bruce Willis’ Die Hard 2 Director Recalls ‘Major Disagreement’ He Had With The Star And How It Was Resolved

A big part of the reason why audiences fell in love with John McClane, the blue-collar cop played by Bruce Willis in the original Die Hard, is that he annoyed the hell out of his antagonists with his dry wit and sarcasm. His catchphrase, “Yippee-ki-yay,” is a gag response to Hans Gruber asking McClane if he thinks he has a shot at surviving the night in Die Hard. And McClane stayed quippy in subsequent sequels, whether he was in a Washington D.C. airport or (yikes) Russia. When we rank the Die Hard movies, we tend to put the funnier ones near the top of our list. But in an interview with Die Hard 2’s director, we are learning that franchise superstar Bruce Willis didn’t want these movies to turn out that way.

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