Episode 05 - Roderick Thorp's Nothing Lasts Forever

Die Hard With a Podcast

Almost a decade before there was Die Hard, there was Nothing Lasts Forever. While it sounds like a lost James Bond film, it's actually the book that Die Hard was based on. That's right – Die Hard was based on a book. Roderick Thorp was a crime novelist who met success with 1966's The Detective, which first spawned a movie adaptation, and then a sequel: Nothing Lasts Forever. Simone and special in-studio guest Daniel Walker (who is special because he actually read the damn book) discuss the life of Roderick Thorp, the origins of Nothing Lasts Forever, and how the movie aligns with – and deviates from – the book that inspired it.

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Links

• ScreenRant: Brake Director Talks Making "Die Hard in the Trunk of a Car"
• Star Trek: The Next Generation's own take on Die Hard with the episode "Starship Mine"
• Trailer for the movie version of The Detective
• The Dollop's episode on the Symbionese Liberation Army

Source Links

• AV Club, The novel that inspired Die Hard has its structure, but none of its holiday spirit
• Kirkus Reviews, Nothing Lasts Forever review
• Los Angeles Times, Obituary: Roderick Thorp; Writer of 'Die Hard,' 'The Detective'
• New York Times, Obituary: Roderick Thorp, 62, a Detective Turned Popular Crime Novelist
• NY Daily News, Before Bruce Willis' ‘Die Hard’ there was the book ‘Nothing Lasts Forever’
• SlashFilm, Nothing Lasts Forever: Comparing ‘Die Hard’ to the 1979 Novel That Inspired It
• The Daily Beast, Seriously, ‘Die Hard’ Was a Novel Before It Was a Movie and a Good One
• The Hollywood Reporter, Novel That Inspired 'Die Hard' Returns to Print After 20 Years
• Writer's Bone, Tough Guy Lit: Roderick Thorp's Nothing Lasts Forever

Guests

• Daniel Walker

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