--- title: Rudolph Die Hard Trailer Mashup description: The trailer for "Die Hard" gets mashed up with "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer." canonical: https://time.com/3640225/die-hard-rudolph-mashup/ author: Eliza Berman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-12-18T20:48:38.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:15:27.613Z og:title: Watch a Mashup of "Die Hard" and "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" og:description: The trailer for "Die Hard" gets mashed up with "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer." og:url: https://time.com/3640225/die-hard-rudolph-mashup/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte2c7beb94f63e33e/69876ff18e06010f26459585/screen-shot-2014-12-18-at-3-47-37-pm.png?branch=production&width=1440&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Screen Shot 2014-12-18 at 3.47.37 PM og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch a Mashup of "Die Hard" and "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" twitter:description: The trailer for "Die Hard" gets mashed up with "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer." twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte2c7beb94f63e33e/69876ff18e06010f26459585/screen-shot-2014-12-18-at-3-47-37-pm.png?branch=production&width=1440&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Watch a Mashup of _Die Hard_ and _Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer_  by [Eliza Berman](https://time.com/author/eliza-berman/)  ## Eliza Berman Berman is a senior editor at TIME. Dec 18, 2014 8:48 PM UTC   by [Eliza Berman](https://time.com/author/eliza-berman/)  ## Eliza Berman Berman is a senior editor at TIME. Dec 18, 2014 8:48 PM UTC Christmas Eve is a moment of great drama in the movies. It’s the night on which Rudolph proves his merit to Santa Claus, leading the reindeer through the skies with his glowing nose. It’s also the night on which John McClane, played by Bruce Willis, takes on a gang of terrorists who have taken his wife hostage. _Die Hard_ and _Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer_ may have little else in common beyond this fateful date, but it was enough of a connection to convince [Film Geekery](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7wmKu2-rRTTXhZ6Itw6pzQ) to mash the two together. Depending on how you look at it, the mashup is either a violent retelling of the Christmas classic or a touching, softer version of the 1988 action blockbuster. The mashup, titled “Rudolph: Fly Hard,” matches the audio from the _Die Hard_ trailer with strategically edited visuals from the 1964 _Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer_ TV special. McClane, naturally, is Rudolph, the ice-cold evil of Hans Gruber (Alan Rickman) is revived in the form of Sam the Snowman, and Sgt. Al Powell (Reginald VelJohnson a.k.a. the dad from _Family Matters_) becomes Yukon Cornelius the gold prospector. It’s worth a watch it if only to hear the words “yippie-ki-yay” come out of cute little Rudolph’s reindeer mouth. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3640225/die-hard-rudolph-mashup/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3640225/die-hard-rudolph-mashup/"},"headline":"Watch a Mashup of Die Hard and Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer","datePublished":"2014-12-18T20:48:38.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:15:27.613Z","description":"It's a good day to fly hard.","url":"https://time.com/3640225/die-hard-rudolph-mashup/","keywords":["Newsfeed"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte2c7beb94f63e33e/69876ff18e06010f26459585/screen-shot-2014-12-18-at-3-47-37-pm.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Eliza Berman","jobTitle":"Berman is a senior editor at TIME.","url":"https://time.com/author/eliza-berman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte2c7beb94f63e33e/69876ff18e06010f26459585/screen-shot-2014-12-18-at-3-47-37-pm.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Screen Shot 2014-12-18 at 3.47.37 PM","caption":"","creditText":"","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3640225/die-hard-rudolph-mashup/","name":"Watch a Mashup of Die Hard and Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer"}}]}] ```