Journalists on Twitter, Paper Magazine's Eric Thurm and The Washington Examiner's Dave Brown referred the computer malfunction that has temporarily grounded United Airlines, the halted New York Stock Exchange trading, and taking down of the Wall Street Journal website akin to living in a Die Hard movie plot. The journalists reflect the events in the cyber-terrorist story of Bruce Willis 2007's Live Free or Die Hard.
The U.S. transportation grid, financial systems, public utilities, and communications were trying to be controlled by a group of computer hackers headed by Timothy Olymphant and Maggie Q just as it happened in the fourth Die Hard film. It was described by hacker Matt Farrell (Justin Long) as a fire sale to NYPD detective John McClane (Bruce Willis).
Matt Farrell explains to detective John McClane, "It's a three-step systematic attack on the entire national infrastructure," Matt Farrell also said "Okay, step one: take out all the transportation. Step two: the financial base and telecoms. Step three: You get rid of all the utilities. Gas, water, electric, nuclear. Pretty much anything that's run by computers, which today is almost everything. So that's why they call it a fire sale, because everything must go."
As the New York Stock Exchange said that the trading shutdown "is an internal technical issue" and not the result of a cyber attack - the #firesale is now trending on Twitter.
The Die Hard collection is available for pre-order at Comic Con, and in stores on October 13. All of Bruce Willis Die Hard films, from the 1988 Die Hard to 2013's A Good Day to Die Hard will be available in Blu-ray and Digital HD copies.
Also, the Blu-ray of the new Die Hard collection will include the iconic building from the first Die Hard movie - the Nakatomi Plaza.
