In this episode of Film Stories with Simon Brew, how the Die Hard franchise came to a crashing end, and an Elvis Presley biopic finally got over the line.
There’s not a lot of love out there for A Good Day To Die Hard (2013), and with good reason. But the intent behind it was sound, and the man who landed the director’s chair was a clear fan of the series.
Producer Gail Berman meanwhile was the person who did a lot battling to bring 2022’s Elvis to the screen – not least securing the necessary music rights to Presley’s catalogue twice to ensure the project kept moving. And then Baz Luhrmann got involved…
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