David Zindel - GalleyCat http://www.mediabistro.com/galleycat The First Word On the Book Publishing Industry Copyright 2013 Sat, 25 May 2013 15:43:04 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 Novel That Inspired ‘Die Hard’ Reissued The novel that inspired Bruce Willis‘ greatest action movie is back in print. The novel arrives just in time for the release of A Good Day to Die Hard, the fifth film in the Die Hard franchise.

Nothing Lasts Forever, a novel by the late author Roderick Thorp, was adapted into the first Die Hard film. The thriller came out in 1979, but Graymalkin Media has brought the book back to life.

The site includes a list of 42 plot points from the novel that ended up in the first movie. We caught up with Graymalkin’s David Zindel, finding out how he ended up reviving this classic thriller.

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