The harrowing holiday triumph of Bruce Willis’s gruff New York detective John McClane over a group of terrorists occupying the L.A. It’s unique approach resonated with audiences and became a massive hit, creating a sub-genre all its own. Set on Christmas Eve, the film’s action-adventure plot was driven by a unlikely hero and set in a central location. The disaster film, about a raging fire breaking out inside the 138-story Glass Tower, was set almost entirely in and around a fictional building in San Francisco.ĭie Hard, however, ran with the idea. Perhaps most influential on Die Hard was The Towering Inferno (1974). RELATED: Photographing the Filming Locations of ‘Menace II Society,’ 25 Years Later We felt the claustrophobia of a German submarine in Das Boot (1981), and a frozen Antarctic research station in The Thing (1982). Then there was the inverted luxury cruise liner of The Poseidon Adventure (1972), and the intimacy of a restaurant conversation in My Dinner With Andre (1981).
There was the confinement of Greenwich Village apartments in Rear Window (1954) and Wait Until Dark (1967). When Die Hard was released July 15, 1988, by 20th Century Fox, single-location films had already been well established. View of Fox Plaza from Olympic Boulevard, July 2018/Photo by Jared Cowan. “ View of Nakatomi Plaza in “Die Hard”/Courtesy of 20th Century Fox. “It was meant to be looked at and regarded in the same way that a leading man takes over a movie. “It’s an organism,” Die Hard production designer Jackson De Govia told L.A. Fox Plaza is privately owned by The Irvine Company, which declined requests to photograph its interior. Though you won’t see a Nakatomi logo posted outside the driveway of 2121 Avenue of the Stars today. The building has become cemented in the minds of moviegoers as Nakatomi Plaza. Sunday, July 15 marks the 30th anniversary of the film’s release, again bringing Fox Plaza to the forefront of city’s imagination. Thirty years ago, this building, Fox Plaza became one of the most recognized filming locations in the history of motion pictures, when it was converted into “Nakatomi Plaza” in the iconic film Die Hard. But don’t worry, “John McClane” is loose somewhere, terrorizing the terrorists. No help is on the way and no one in the immediate area suspects anything out of the ordinary. It’s the middle of July 2018, but it might as well be the fictional Christmas of 1988, and there might as well be pandemonium breaking loose on the upper floors of the 34-story building, where East German terrorists have invaded a company Christmas party. The surrounding office buildings are closed, and the gates of the nearby Fox Studios parking garage are rolled down. A Rubik’s Cube-like office building in the style of Late Modern architecture towers over Century City on an overcast Sunday morning.
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