The aesthetic argument made between Die Hard die hards and Lethal Weapon fans thus plays out like the world’s dumbest tennis match.
De Souza later told Dazed Digital that “one of our producers, Joel Silver, had made Lethal Weapon the previous year, which was also set during the holiday, and he had decided he liked all his movies to take place at Christmas, as they would then very likely be played on television every December, and we would all get residual checks. Why?īecause Joel Silver, producer of Lethal Weapon and now Die Hard, said so. The one request Levin had of de Souza? Keep the novel’s Christmas setting. A few calls later, and he’s connected to Lloyd Levin, the head of development of the Fox affiliate, The Gordon Company. Cut to the late 1980s and screenwriter Jeb Stuart was broke and needed work. Remarks Like That Will Not Get You Invited to Christmas DinnerĢ0th Century Fox had owned the rights to Roderick Thorp’s 1978 novel, Nothing Lasts Forever, since they purchased 1966’s The Detective and adapted it into the 1968 film of the same name starring Frank Sinatra.
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Not only is Lethal Weapon more authentically a Christmas movie in terms of origin, but it offers more of the sweet holiday feelings that Die Hard just never bothers to attempt to engender in the viewer. In the trailer for the 30th anniversary edition of Die Hard, 20th Century Fox added the tagline, “It’s the greatest Christmas story ever told,” but they forgot Joel Silver’s other big holiday action movie. There are a lot of reasons why Lethal Weapon is the superior Christmas action movie aside from the presence of Darlene Love, and they can be divided into two camps: one on the technical side, and the other on the emotional. de Souza’s Die Hard is a certified classic of the action genre, but is it really a Christmas movie? There are arguments for and against this, but for whatever reason, the controversy has coalesced around Die Hard and forgotten the real action movie that deserves to be in the Christmas canon, and that’s Richard Donner and Shane Black’s holiday classic, Lethal Weapon.
Sure, John McTiernan, Jeb Stuart, and Steven E. Al, the redeemed killer cop, gunning down Karl in a surprise display of heroics. Hans, nonplussed, killing the world’s worst yuppie scumbag Ellis. Just your standard action movie, right? Now replace the blaring guitar or thunderous orchestra with “Jingle Bell Rock,” “I’ll Be Home For Christmas,” and “The First Noel.” Wait… is this a holiday movie or Lethal Weapon?Įvery year, the debate rages on. Guns firing, blood flying, goons dying, and an unlikely hero quipping before bringing down the big bad.
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