Timothy Olyphant’s Die Hard Villain Quietly Ended a 19-Year Franchise Tradition

Twelve years after the events of Die Hard with a Vengeance, John McClane returns in Live Free or Die Hard, now facing a new kind of threat in the 21st century: cyberterrorism. This time, McClane is challenged not just physically, but technologically, and he finds himself outmatched by the villain, Thomas Gabriel, played by Timothy Olyphant – a first for the series.


