Most people know that movies like Little Women and P.S. I Love You are based on books...but did you know about all the TV shows and movies on this list?1.The Parent Trap is actually based on the 1949 ...

Bruce Willis, I 20th Century-Fox/Getty Images ‘Die Hard’ was adapted from a book by Roderick Thorp It may be hard to believe, but a book inspired Die Hard.

Before Bruce Willis became synonymous with Die Hard, the role of John McClane was offered to a surprising, legendary ...

Reading “Nothing Lasts Forever,” the newly re-released 1979 novel the movie “Die Hard” was based on, it’s hard to believe that Roderick Thorp didn’t write it with the specific aim of ...

Oozes analog action. A nail-biter that carries traits of the book, Nothing Lasts Forever by Roderick Thorp, of which, the 1987 film was based off of.

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But THE DETECTIVE by RODERICK THORP (Dial, $5.95) has almost everything else, the luxuriant details accompanied by sniggering parenthetical moralizing.