Die Hard with a Vengeance/Trivia

• Bruce Willis suggested Samuel L. Jackson for the movie. Jackson was thrilled, saying that he's "seen the first Die Hard maybe thirty times."
• Jeremy Irons, the main villain, does not physically appear until fifty minutes into the movie.
• During a press conference to promote the film's release, Bruce Willis pre-emptively told reporters that he would not discuss the April 1995 Oklahoma City bombing in any way because he did not want to trivialize that real-world tragedy by comparing it in any way to a fictional movie.
• As in Die Hard, the German spoken in this movie is mostly grammatically incorrect. A few lines are so wrong, that they have to be considered gibberish (most notably the exchange of the fake cops, who are given the briefcase bomb by Zeus). In the German release, however, all of the lines that were German in the original movie are grammatically correct, fitting the context, and some of the terrorists even have an East German accent.
• In an alternate ending John meets Simon and at that point McClaine was fired and his wife divorced him.