Die Hard 2 - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

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Fan of Die Hard 2 or just want to share your movie knowledge? This topic is dedicated to all trivia and questions related to Die Hard 2

[jamie]

All the airplane landing equipment used by the mercenaries in the church is close to the real equipment used in actual air traffic control towers, but simplified for the film's dramatic and action effects.

[gerald]

Each film in the Die Hard series has a key scene involving an elevator.

[chad]

Mark Boone, Jr. and Robert Patrick later appeared in Sons of Anarchy (2008).

[ray]

William Sadler and Art Evans would later costar in the film Trespass (1992).

[dustin]

In one scene, Holly McClane Is looking through files in a "Nakatomi Corporation" folder.

[phyllis]

The General is from Val Verde, the fictitious Latin-American country used in Commando (1985).

[phyllis]

Several scenes were filmed but cut from the final release of the film: An extended version of the scene when McClane enters the terminal, featuring shots of a children's choir singing Christmas carols (the audio of the choir singing still remains in the final cut, but only heard in the background), A scene of two of the terrorists killing off two painters and stealing their truck as well as their uniforms (to pose as painters later in the Skywalk SWAT team ambush scene). An extended version of the scene where McClane first meets up with Marvin the janitor, and finally an extended scene of Marvin showing McClane the best way to access the tunnels to get to the runways, which includes a scene where McClane has to walk carefully across a narrow beam over a hot boiler. All of these cut scenes can be viewed in the Deleted Scenes section of the Special Features disc.

[bernice]

There are no opening credits.

[christina]

Bruce Willis' character's (John McClane) wife (Holly McClane) says, "I knocked out two of his (Dick Thornberg's) teeth". His character said the same thing in The Last Boy Scout (1991).

[frances]

Cast members Art Evans, Don Harvey, and John Amos guest starred in season 5 (1996-97) of Walker, Texas Ranger (1993).

[riley]

In Die Hard (1988), Sergeant Al Powell is humming along with the song "Let It Snow!" sung by Vaughn Monroe; the same song plays both at the end of this film and Die Hard (1988).

[miriam]

The plane interiors were filmed on the back lot at Universal Studios in Hollywood.