15 Movies We Would Like to See on Broadway

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2. Die Hard

Die Hard is the best Christmas movie of all time. So like Elf and A Christmas Story: the Musical before it, the film needs to be adapted for the stage. Just think, a play you don’t have to drag your father to, but one where he would actually buy the tickets and be excited about attending. I mean, Rocky was a musical back in 2014, anything is possible.

Die Hard has everything: an underdog hero, bromance, love, and one of the best villains in Hans Gruber (RIP Alan Rickman).  You know what other play has all those things? Les Miserables which is one of the most successful musicals of all time. Die Hard could go classic Broadway in that way or another direction completely with a more updated rock and roll sound to give it more of a modern edge. If they were to go classic, they should cast the last Jean Valjean to grace the stage in NYC, John Owen Jones, who already kind of looks like Rickman (maybe it’s the facial hair) and who also has the voice of an angel.

There could be a series of songs that take place as conversations over walkie talkies between John up in the Nakatomi Building and police sergeant Al Powell (Reginald Veljohnson) down below on the ground where they establish their friendship and make plans. Hans Gruber would get a villain song that would make “Be Prepared” from The Lion King seem tame. There could even be a country style song mocking John McClane’s cowboy nickname and famous one liner. Yippie-ki-yay indeed.