Die Hard's Prequel Redefines the Original Movie's Twist
A Die Hard prequel comic makes it seem like John McClane should have realized a lot sooner in the original 1988 film that the movie's villains were only pretending to be terrorists to pull off a heist. In 2010 Boom! Studios published an 8-issue limited series called Die Hard: Year One. The Howard Chaykin-Stephen Thomas collaboration tells the story of a younger John McClane more than a decade before the events of the original Die Hard movie. While comic was never able to mirror the success of the film series, it did make enough of an impression on filmmakers for it to be chosen as the basis of the ill-fated sixth Die Hard movie.
The fact that the comic was being going to be adapted for the film series means that it is considered Die Hard canon. Therefore, John McClane in the movie A Good Day to Die Hard should remember what happened in Die Hard: Year One as easily as he remembers what happened in the original movie. The comic adapts the films' unmistakable «day-in-the-life» style to tell its tale. The story begins on July 4, 1976, when McClane is a newly minted member of the New York Police Department who is asked to provide security for the Police Commissioner during a meet and greet onboard the yacht of one of the city's most powerful business executive. Naturally for McClane, the yacht gets commandeered by a bunch of «terrorists» who threaten to blow it up unless their demands are met.
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Within a few minutes of hearing the demands of the so-called «terrorists,» John McClane points out that they're just pretending to be terrorists to disguise their real motive: money. McClane's theory is initially dismissed by others working with him but ultimately he's
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