Lot 136
 

The Marc Wolff Collection: A Good Day to Die Hard (2013) –

Original Production Script by Skip Woods for the fifth instalment in The Die Hard film series starring Bruce Willis, current revisions by Jason Keller, Twentieth Century Fox, Los Angeles, California, dated June 17, 2012, unbound, within clear and card covers, 97-pages on white sheets and orange yellow blue and green revision sheets, with a Production Memo titled ‘Unofficial Script Revisions for Chernobyl / Halo sequence’, dated July 1, 1980, and 18-additional pages of script bound-in at end, 21.5 x 30cm.

Bruce Willis had wanted to shoot an additional instalment in the series following A Good Day to Die Hard before retiring the character, John McLane. However, in March 2022 Willis retired from acting, due to being diagnosed with aphasia, making this the last film in the series.

Provenance: The Collection of Marc Wolff, Award winning Aerial Unit Director/Stunt Pilot.

Marc Wolff has worked with Directors including, Stephen Spielberg, Ridley Scott, George Lucas, Stanley Kubrick, Mike Nichols, Kenneth Branagh, Danny Boyle, Ron Howard, Brian De Palma, J.J. Abrams, Oliver Stone, Steven Soderbergh, Wolfgang Petersen, Sam Mendes, Taylor Hackford, Mike Leigh, Michael Apted, Alejandro Inarritu, Mike Newell, Bryan Singer, Roger Spottiswoode, Tony Scott, Robert Zemeckis, Doug Liman, Christopher McQuarrie, Jan De Bont, Zack Snyder, Edward Zwick, Justin Lin, Jon Favreau, Matthew Vaughn, Guy Richie, David Yates, Dexter Fletcher and Martin Campbell, to name a few.

In 1990, Marc was the first person to fly a hot air balloon in Red Square, Moscow for Disney’s film, The Time Keeper, and during the 2012 Summer Olympics Opening Ceremony, he flew the helicopter for the section flying along the River Thames, the pre-recorded sequence known as ‘Happy and Glorious’, flying straight through Tower Bridge, and piloted the helicopter the late Queen Elzabeth II appeared to parachute from above the Olympic Stadium.

Marc Wolff’s awards include, The BSC Award for 'Technical Excellence and Contribution to the Art of Aerial Cinematography', The International Moving Image Society Award for 'Services to the International Film Industry ‘, and the 1993 Award for Best Stunt for his work as aerial coordinator and stunt pilot in the film Cliffhanger, when his team transferred stunt man, Simon Crane, from the back of a DC9 airliner to the door of a Lockheed Jetstar business jet. The stunt performed near Durango, Colorado in November 1992 was a year in planning and cost one million dollars to rehearse and shoot.

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The Marc Wolff Collection: A Good Day to Die Hard (2013) –

Original Production Script by Skip Woods for the fifth instalment in The Die Hard film series starring Bruce Willis, current revisions by Jason Keller, Twentieth Century Fox, Los Angeles, California, dated June 17, 2012, unbound, within clear and card covers, 97-pages on white sheets and orange yellow blue and green revision sheets, with a Production Memo titled ‘Unofficial Script Revisions for Chernobyl / Halo sequence’, dated July 1, 1980, and 18-additional pages of script bound-in at end, 21.5 x 30cm.

Bruce Willis had wanted to shoot an additional instalment in the series following A Good Day to Die Hard before retiring the character, John McLane. However, in March 2022 Willis retired from acting, due to being diagnosed with aphasia, making this the last film in the series.

Provenance: The Collection of Marc Wolff, Award winning Aerial Unit Director/Stunt Pilot.

Marc Wolff has worked with Directors including, Stephen Spielberg, Ridley Scott, George Lucas, Stanley Kubrick, Mike Nichols, Kenneth Branagh, Danny Boyle, Ron Howard, Brian De Palma, J.J. Abrams, Oliver Stone, Steven Soderbergh, Wolfgang Petersen, Sam Mendes, Taylor Hackford, Mike Leigh, Michael Apted, Alejandro Inarritu, Mike Newell, Bryan Singer, Roger Spottiswoode, Tony Scott, Robert Zemeckis, Doug Liman, Christopher McQuarrie, Jan De Bont, Zack Snyder, Edward Zwick, Justin Lin, Jon Favreau, Matthew Vaughn, Guy Richie, David Yates, Dexter Fletcher and Martin Campbell, to name a few.

In 1990, Marc was the first person to fly a hot air balloon in Red Square, Moscow for Disney’s film, The Time Keeper, and during the 2012 Summer Olympics Opening Ceremony, he flew the helicopter for the section flying along the River Thames, the pre-recorded sequence known as ‘Happy and Glorious’, flying straight through Tower Bridge, and piloted the helicopter the late Queen Elzabeth II appeared to parachute from above the Olympic Stadium.

Marc Wolff’s awards include, The BSC Award for 'Technical Excellence and Contribution to the Art of Aerial Cinematography', The International Moving Image Society Award for 'Services to the International Film Industry ‘, and the 1993 Award for Best Stunt for his work as aerial coordinator and stunt pilot in the film Cliffhanger, when his team transferred stunt man, Simon Crane, from the back of a DC9 airliner to the door of a Lockheed Jetstar business jet. The stunt performed near Durango, Colorado in November 1992 was a year in planning and cost one million dollars to rehearse and shoot.

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Auction: Entertainment & Memorabilia, including Vintage Posters, 7th May, 2025

To include The Collection of Peter Green, founder of Fleetwood Mac, including his personal sketchbooks containing original artworks, handwritten lyrics including, ‘Single Man of the World’ and ‘Closing My Eyes’ and an original drawing for the slipcase of his book, ‘The Albatross Man’; The Collection of Marc Wolff, Aerial Unit Director and Stunt Pilot, including a quantity of Original Production scripts; A pair of James Bond associated Henri Selmer saxophones, belonging to a former member of The James Barry Seven; Vintage Fashion by iconic designers such as Vivienne Westwood, Malcolm McLaren, Ossie Clark, Wonder Workshop, Biba, and much more.

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