Okay, so I knew Die Hard was originally based on a book of some sort, but I never knew this:
The movie is based on a 1979 novel by Roderick Thorp titled Nothing Lasts Forever, itself a sequel to the book The Detective, which was previously made into a 1968 movie starring Frank Sinatra.
I’m just trying to picture Frank Sinatra as John McClane…
Via Wikipedia.
“Yippy ki-yay, mother f**ker.” (said with appropriate accent, of course)
I think it’d be more like, “Do be do be do, motherf**ker.”