Fred's Fun Fact: Die Hard!

Find out who was supposed to be in Die Hard!

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
The Fred Show is on Fred's fun fact Fredwaun learn
so much? All right, guys, so this is interesting. Bruce
willis okay. When you think of Bruce willis, what do
you think of first die Hard? Yep, so, Bruce, have

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you ever seen Diehard? I know the answer. I know
that that he was. I knew what you were gonna say.
I could read your mind. Bruce Willis played the legendary
John McClain in the die Hard film franchise. Right, but
before he landed the role in the Action Pack movies,
the part was offered to Frank Sinatra, who was in

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his seventies at the time. And that may sound strange,
but it had to do with illegal obligation. I never
knew this, by the way. The movie was based on
the nineteen seventy nine Roderick Thorpe novel Nothing Lasts Forever,
which was a follow up to nineteen sixty six The
Detective I Guess not Removed in nineteen sixty eight, or
excuse me, that was a novel. In nineteen sixty eight,

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that novel had been made into a film starring Sinatra,
not as Jean McClain but as Joe Leland, a former
New York cop who becomes a private investigator. So when
Sinatra signed up for that movie, it was in his
contract that the studio had to offer him the main
part in the sequel, but when that eventually happened, he
turned down the role. But can you imagine Diehard without
Bruce Willis? No one with a seven year old Sinatra?

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Can you imagine Bruce Willis with a Diehard? No? And
is it a Christmas movie? Oh God, here we go.
I don't have time on more fresh show next