History Trivia / AGoodDayToDieHard

* OldShame: Creator/BruceWillis has since disowned this film.

* StarDerailingRole: This was the first of many critical and financial bombs Creator/BruceWillis starred in between 2013 and 2014, which – combined with allegations of difficult behavior while working on this film, ''Film/TheExpendables2'', ''Film/CopOut'', and others – helped send his career into a headlong decline. By the end of the decade, Willis had been mostly relegated to voiceover work and direct-to-DVD action films, and he ended up retiring from acting altogether in 2022 due to a degenerative neurological condition.

* FranchiseKiller: The film's poor reception and underwhelming box-office put the ''Die Hard'' series on ice, with all proposed continuations of the franchise since then being in the form of either a prequel or a continuity reboot, and even Willis himself admitting he was unlikely to ever play John [=McClane=] again.

* BoxOfficeBomb: Budget: $92 million. $67,349,198 (domestic), Total $304,654,182

* StarDerailingRole: This was the first of many critical and financial bombs Creator/BruceWillis starred in between 2013 and 2014, which – combined with allegations of difficult behavior while working on this film, ''Film/TheExpendables2'', ''Film/CopOut'', and others – helped send his career into a headlong decline. By the end of the decade, Willis had been mostly relegated to voiceover work and direct-to-DVD action films, and he ended up retiring from acting altogether in 2022 due to a generative neurological condition.

* FranchiseKiller: The film's poor reception and underwhelming box-office put the ''Die Hard'' series on ice, with all proposed continuations of the franchise since then being in the form of either a prequel or a continuity reboot, and even Willis himself admitting he was unlikely to ever play John [=McClane=] again..

* StarDerailingRole: This was the first of many critical and financial bombs Creator/BruceWillis starred in between 2013 and 2014, which – combined with allegations of difficult behavior while working on this film, ''Film/TheExpendables2'', ''Film/CopOut'', and others – helped send his career into a headlong decline. By the end of the decade, Willis had been mostly relegated to voiceover work and direct-to-DVD action films.

* StarDerailingRole: This was the first of many critical and financial bombs Creator/BruceWillis starred in between 2013 and 2014, which – combined with allegations of difficult behavior while working on this film, ''Film/TheExpendables2'', ''Film/CopOut'', and others – helped send his career into a headlong decline. By the end of the decade, Willis had been mostly relegated to voiceover work and direct-to-DVD action fims.

* MissingTrailerScene: The teaser trailer has a notable moment of {{Fanservice}}, featurin Irina getting off a motorbike and stripping off her catsuit (revealing lingerie underneath) and changing into a dress. In the actual film, this moment is (unbelievably) not shown on-screen, as it cuts from Irina beginning to unzip her suit to a scene outside, and her having already donned the dress by the time it cuts back.

* StarDerailingRole: This was the first in a series of critical and commercial bombs in 2013 and 2014, which -- along with allegations of difficult behavior on the set of this, ''Film/TheExpendables2'', ''Film/CopOut'', and several other films -- helped send Creator/BruceWillis' career into a headlong decline. By the end of the decade, Willis had been mostly relegated to voiceover work and direct-to-DVD action fims.

* BoxOfficeBomb: Budget: $92 million. $67,349,198 (domestic), Total $304 million

* BoxOfficeBomb: Budget: $92 million. Total $304 million

** When the TV series ''Series/TwentyFour'' was coming to an end and a movie was being considered, rumor has it that they were seriously considering making a ''Die Hard 5'' that would actually be a cross-over, with Jack Bauer and John [=McClane=] teaming up to fight terrorists. The idea was eventually abandoned (assuming it was ever actually true in the first place) in favor of making a stand-alone ''24'' movie. But oh, What Could Have Been...

** When the TV series ''Series/TwentyFour'' was coming to an end and a movie was being considered, rumor has it that they were seriously considering making a ''Die Hard 5'' that would actually be a cross-over, with Jack Bauer and John [=McClane=] teaming up to fight terrorists. The idea was eventually abandoned (assuming it was ever actually true in the first place) in favor of making a stand-alone ''24'' movie. But oh, WhatCouldHaveBeen...

* FakeAmerican: Australian Jai Courtney playing an American faking to be Russian.

* {{Bowdlerize}}: The UK version pre-cut John's catch phrase to get a 12A rating. The US version kept it in.

* MissingTrailerScene: A Good Day to Die Hard's teaser trailer has a notable moment of Fanservice, featurin Irina getting off a motorbike and stripping off her catsuit (revealing lingerie underneath) and changing into a dress. In the actual film, this moment is (unbelievably) not shown on-screen, as it cuts from Irina beginning to unzip her suit to a scene outside, and her having already donned the dress by the time it cuts back.
* OldShame: Willis has since disowned this film.

** Creator/AaronPaul, Liam Hemsworth, James Badge Dale, Creator/PaulWalker, Creator/BenFoster, Shiloh Fernandez, Creator/MiloVentimiglia, Creator/PaulDano, Steven R. [=McQueen=], D.J. Cotrona, and Music/JustinTimberlake were all considered for the role of Jack.

** Creator/AaronPaul, Liam Hemsworth, James Badge Dale, Creator/PaulWalker, Creator/BenFoster, Shiloh Fernandez, Creator/MiloVentimiglia, Creator/PaulDano, Steven R. [=McQueen=], D.J. Cotrona, and Creator/JustinTimberlake were all considered for the role of Jack.

** Creator/AaronPaul, Liam Hemsworth, James Badge Dale, Creator/PaulWalker, Creator/BenFoster, Shiloh Fernandez, Creator/MiloVentimiglia, Creator/PaulDano, Steven R. [=McQueen=], and D.J. Cotrona were all considered for the role of Jack.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: When the TV series ''Series/TwentyFour'' was coming to an end and a movie was being considered, rumor has it that they were seriously considering making a ''Die Hard 5'' that would actually be a cross-over, with Jack Bauer and John [=McClane=] teaming up to fight terrorists. The idea was eventually abandoned (assuming it was ever actually true in the first place) in favor of making a stand-alone ''24'' movie. But oh, WhatCouldHaveBeen...

* {{Bowdlerize}}: The UK version of ''A Good Day to Die Hard'' pre-cut John's catch phrase to get a 12A rating. The US version kept it in.
* CelebrityVoiceActor: In the Japanese dub of ''A Good Day to Die Hard'', Jack [=McClane=] is voiced by theater actor Sou Nozawa, who is the son of the late Creator/NachiNozawa, who voiced his father John in-film.
* FakeAmerican: Australian Jai Courtney playing an American faking to be Russian in ''A Good Day to Die Hard''.