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Extended/alternate dialogue in McClane/Powell conversation after McClane uses the plastic explosives. CodyS Well, while the answer is certainly good, there's nothing that says this necessarily is the poster you've heard about and if there might not be more to the rumour your heard.

Though this answer provides a few poster images and mentions Willis' initial troubles with being taken as a serious actor, it neither confirms or denies there having been a poster without Willis on it. If someone has access to microfilm archives of that newspaper, they should be able to track down the original 2-page ad. Complete with a serialized certificate of authenticity and verifiable numbered hologram, this piece is a secure investment that will increase in value with age. There is a comment on a forum mentioning this poster: "When it was released in 1988, the Houston Chronicle Newspaper had a full 2 page print AD for it . Special praise must go out to Alan Rickman too whose performance as chief baddie Hans is to this day one of cinemas finest, moving convincingly from cool, calm and collected to desperate and nervous, never once seeming anything less than utterly ruthless and calculating.Whether you're a collector or just looking for a unique piece to decorate your home or office, we have something for everyone. Willis, most famous at the time for the comic TV Series 'Moonlighting', made a perfect ordinary-man-in-an-extraordinary-situation action hero. Still, the filming of scenes that involved gunfire had to be postponed until after hours because some of the employees from the active floors started to complain about the noise. At the end, McClane says "You got a warranty for this (Holly's watch, a gift from Nakatomi Corporation)? He made action movies slick, smart and full of pace and wit while never letting up on the bullets, cars and bombs front.

It could also be that non-Bruce-Willis posters were sent out to newspapers by mistake and this was later retconned as producers being afraid of putting up his face. Naturally, once the movie was a smash hit and Willis was liked by the audience, a new poster was hastily released that featured his likeness. In the end though, Hans is a pure sociopath that even the audience is conned into sympathizing with.I saw both posters and, when considering the rumor, looked at the original and thought "Surely they can't mean the poster in which Willis' face occupies 25% of it", but ok, fair enough. But if the studio changed their mind and switched back to using Bruce-Willis-posters nationwide before the movie's wide release (July 15th), one has to wonder why? As you can see the Nakatomi building is as important, showing the action which people might not assume from a picture of Willis.

It's possible that the marketing kept using Bruce-Willis-posters in only a few select newspapers/cities (especially L. Brief scene of FBI agents getting stuck in thorn bushes as they make their way towards the building.

The film follows off-duty New York City Police Department officer John McClane (Bruce Willis) who is caught in a Los Angeles skyscraper during a Christmas Eve heist led by Hans Gruber (Alan Rickman) at Nakatomi Plaza. Given that the red-carpet premiere occurred on the evening of July 12th 1988, it seems that the producers have decided to include Bruce Willis after all sometime around July 13th. Only after the movie proved to be a box office hit, did they put Bruce Willis' face back on the poster.