A closer look
Fox Plaza in Los Angeles famously served as the Nakatomi Plaza in the original Die Hard while actively charging the production crew rental fees for the empty floors while the movie was being filmed, meaning the studio literally paid rent to shoot their action movie in their own corporate headquarters and filled the unfinished office spaces with fake terrorists and heavy machine gun fire, making it deeply ironic that a movie about a rugged blue-collar cop taking down greedy and sophisticated thieves was filmed in a building where studio executives were actively shaking down their own production team for extra cash in a perfect encapsulation of the ruthless entertainment industry
