'' Live Free or Die Hard '' was based on the 1997 article " A Farewell to Arms " written for '' Wired '' magazine by John Carlin . It also drew on a script 20th Century Fox owned called "WW3.com " , which dealt with a massive cyberterrorism attack against the U.S. and was nearly put into production in 2001 but ultimately abandoned because several elements in the story too closely resembled the September 11 attacks
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September 11 attacks
Die Hard (film series)