He has weighed in on the age-old debate
The filmmaker was in London for a screening of Die Hard where audience members showed up wearing Santa hats.Advertisement
“It’s not for us to say, it’s people. It’s for the audience to say. If the audience decides they want to make it a Christmas movie, it’s a Christmas movie. It turns out that way. “It wasn’t intended as a Christmas movie. It was deliberately built around Christmas, but not intended to be a Christmas movie.
"It’s actually, from a distance... politically pretty strident, and the only reason that survived was that the people in the studio who would have stopped that were deceived because they thought it was just an action movie about a Christmas party that goes wrong."
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