In the graphic novel adventure prequel "Die Hard: Year One", to be released by Boom! Studios August 2009, 'John McClane', more than a decade before the events chonicled in the first "Die Hard" movie, is a rookie cop, working on earning his badge in New York City during the US 1976 Bicentennial celebration.The first 20th Century Fox "Die Hard" feature, directed by John McTiernan in 1988, was produced by Lawrence Gordon, Joel Silver, Charles Gordon and Beau Marks, from a screenplay by Jeb Stuart and Steven E. de Souza.
The movie was based on a 1979 novel by author Roderick Thorp titled 'Nothing Lasts Forever", itself a sequel to the book "The Detective", adapted into a 1968 theatrical feature starring actor Frank Sinatra....
