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They were two of the biggest stars of the ’80s and ’90s and yet it’s hard to believe that Sylvester Stallone and Kim Basinger had never worked together before 2013 ‘s “Grudge Match”.
But get this, we were
this close to seeing Sly snuggle up with Vicky Vale in a big-time cool-ass monster movie in the ’90s!
This close…
In the late ’80s, Ridley Scott was developing a monster-on-a-train flick titled “Dead Reckoning”. The film, a Jim Uhls scripted horror-thriller pitting the leads against a genetically created monster that gets loose on a runaway train, was set up with Carolco and “Lethal Weapon” producer Joel Silver. H.R Giger, who had designed the creatures for Scott’s 1979 sci-fi classic “Alien”, was already hard at work on monster designs for the film. Soaked. Soaked.
Die Hard is actually a Christmas movie, as much as a workable distinction exists.
Studies suggest that viewers do draw a delineation: 50% of British audiences believe that a movie set at Christmas is not inherently a Christmas movie. A YouGov survey in December 2017 suggested that 56% of Americans and 52% of Britons don’t believe that
Die Hard is a Christmas movie. The following year, a poll from Morning Consult and The Hollywood Reporter was even more definitive, suggesting 62% of Americans did not think of
Die Hard as a Christmas movie.
Of course, just because the majority believes something does not necessarily make it true. These surveys are all the product of a post-truth age, after all. There is plenty of anecdotal evidence to support the idea of