As a result, while Die Hard was now available to add to movie collections and be stocked at rental stores (those were the days), the quality initially wasn’t up to snuff compared to how it was screened in theaters.
Enter King’s mother, who fought to toss aside the ‘pan and scan’ method in favor of putting Die Hard in the proper widescreen format.
Having recently watched Die Hard, Tom King (whose notable comic book credits include the current Batman run, Grayson and The Vision) shed light on how Die Hard’s initial home video launch got off to a bad start.
We take for granted watching movies in widescreen on our TVs, computers and smart devices nowadays, but in the late 1980s, adding those black bars wasn’t the norm.