Thorp’s response was “I’m writing one now.” Then he went home and started writing a new chapter in the life of the detective played by Frank Sinatra. “When the film became a hit, the producers told Thorp if he wrote a sequel, they would buy it. “In 1968, Roderick Thorp’s best selling novel “The Detective” had been made into a film starring Frank Sinatra and Lee Remick, released by 20th Century Fox”, explained ScriptSecrets. But even before it was a “Commando 2”, the guts of the story was originally intended for use by another sequel. The story was inspired by one of de Souza’s favourites, a treasured detective novel by Roderick Thorp called “Nothing Lasts Forever”, which tells of a retired police officer named Joseph Leland and his plight to rescue the people of Klaxon Oil, whose company is taken over by terrorists (Frank Sinatra played the character in “The Detective”, also based on a book by Thorpe). John McTiernan’s landmark actioner originally started as a sequel to Arnold Schwarzenegger’s camouflaged-hero movie “Commando” (1985).įox had commissioned Steven de Souza, writer of “Commando”, to write a sequel to the 1985 Arnie biffobuster and he completed the libretto on-time and to company specifications. Allysa Milano’s Pop should’ve been swinging from rope outside a building. It also wore the guise of “Commando 2” – for about 5 minutes. “Die Hard” started out as “Nothing Lasts Forever”.
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