Padme's Library: 📘🎥Friday's Film Adaptation🎥📘: Nothing Lasts Forever by Roderick Thorp

Friday, December 6, 2019

📘🎥Friday's Film Adaptation🎥📘: Nothing Lasts Forever by Roderick Thorp

Summary:
This bestseller was the basis for the blockbuster film "Die Hard" starring Bruce Willis.

High atop a Los Angeles skyscraper, an office Christmas party turns into a deadly cage-match between a lone New York City cop and a gang of international terrorists. Every action fan knows it could only be the explosive big-screen blockbuster Die Hard. But before Bruce Willis blew away audiences as unstoppable hero John McClane, author Roderick Thorp knocked out thriller readers with the bestseller that started it all.

A dozen heavily armed terrorists have taken hostages, issued demands, and promised bloodshed all according to plan. But they haven't counted on a death-defying, one-man cavalry with no shoes, no backup, and no intention of going down easily. As hot-headed cops swarm outside, and cold-blooded killers wield machine guns and rocket launchers inside, the stage is set for the ultimate showdown between anti-hero and uber-villains. Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good fight to the death. Ho ho ho!

Detective John McClane inadvertently becomes embroiled in a hostage situation when his wife''s office is taken over by German terrorists, lead by the devilish Hans Gruber.

Release Date: July 15, 1988

Release Time: 132 minutes

Cast:

Bruce Willis as John McClane

Alan Rickman as Hans Gruber

Alexander Godunov as Karl

Bonnie Bedelia as Holly Gennaro-McClane

Reginald VelJohnson as Sgt. Al Powell

Paul Gleason as Dwayne T. Robinson

De'voreaux White as Argyle

William Atherton as Richard Thornburg

Clarence Gilyard as Theo

Hart Bochner as Harry Ellis

James Shigeta as Joseph Yoshinobu Takagi

Bruno Doyon as Franco
Andreas Wisniewski as Tony Vreski
Joey Plewa as Alexander
Lorenzo Caccialanza as Marco
Gerard Bonn as Kristoff
Dennis Hayden as Eddie
Al Leong as Uli
Gary Roberts as Heinrich
Hans Buhringer as Fritz
Wilhelm von Homburg as James
Robert Davi as FBI Special Agent Big Johnson
Grand L. Bush as FBI Special Agent Little Johnson

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Author Bio:
Roderick Mayne Thorp, Jr. was an American novelist specializing mainly in crime novels.

As a young college graduate, Thorp worked at a detective agency owned by his father. He would later teach literature and lecture on creative writing at schools and universities in New Jersey and California, and also wrote articles for newspapers and magazines.

Two of his best known novels were adapted into popular films: his 1966 novel The Detective was made into a 1968 film of the same name, starring Frank Sinatra as Detective Joe Leland, and his 1979 sequel to The Detective, Nothing Lasts Forever, was filmed in 1988 as Die Hard, starring Bruce Willis. Though Die Hard was relatively faithful to Nothing Lasts Forever, it was not made as a sequel to the film version of The Detective. Two other Thorp novels, Rainbow Drive and Devlin, were adapted into TV movies.

Thorp died of a heart attack in Oxnard, California.