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Skyscraper movie fire axe1/12/2024 ![]() Skyscraper, meanwhile, asked Smith to shoulder a whole movie on her own – a potentially daunting prospect, but not an entirely improbable one, given that Smith had co-starred in the action sequel To The Limit a year earlier – a film also directed by Skyscraper‘s Raymond Martino. Second, it asks former Playboy model Anna Nicole Smith to pick up a gun and become a high-kicking ’90s action heroine.īy the mid-90s, Smith had already made the jump to the big screen with appearances in such films as the Coen brothers’ The Hudsucker Proxy and comedy sequel, Naked Gun 33⅓. Skyscraper distinguishes itself with two major changes: first, it tries to remake Die Hard with roughly the same budget as an episode of the old TV soap, Dynasty. For one thing, it doesn’t even attempt to put the “one unprepared hero versus the bad guys” concept in a new setting instead, it basically lifts the entire plot wholesale from Bruce Willis’s 1988 hit, and even attempts to restage some of its major action set-pieces. Skyscraper was surely the most brazen – and sauciest – Die Hard clone to emerge from that whole strange period. Keanu Reeves bulked up for the surprise hit, Speed (the one on a bus) in 1994. Sylvester Stallone broke a run of box office disappointments with Cliffhanger (the one on a mountain) in 1993. Steven Seagal scored a decent hit with Under Siege (the one on a warship) in 1992. Back then, we were in the midst of a Die Hard clone epidemic – movies that attempted to copy its single-location thriller template to varying degrees of success. So too, it seemed, did the makers of another film called Skyscraper, this one from the distant year of 1996.
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