"Happy Trails, Hans." | Bryan Johnson Creative

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It IS a Christmas movie.

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I am SO happy to be able to finally reveal this brand-new piece. It has been an amazing experience collaborating on this special project with Hero Complex Gallery and I’m so very proud of how this was brought to life. DIE HARD has so many amazingly iconic moments, as well as some incredible art out there, so I really wanted to create something that had not been seen before. I wanted to focus on the final showdown between John McLane and Hans Gruber, and that Beretta 92fs taped to John’s sweaty and bloodied back. I experimented with lighting and texture in new ways to create the mood in this. I wanted to establish the illusion of depth, so that the audience felt like they could stare right through the middle of the action; past the broken glass, and through John’s raised arms, through the smoke, haze and showers of sparks, all the way out the window of the Nakatomi Plaza and into the night time sky of Los Angeles.

There are quite a few hidden details throughout this piece that not only tell the story of this scene, but pay tribute to the film as a whole. Can you find them all? Created as a limited-edition fine art print on archival stock, as well as a super limited “Nakatomi” Title Variant edition of only 40. (The number of stories in the Nakatomi building.)

“Happy Trails, Hans.” (Regular Limited-Edition)
24×36 – Hand numbered edition of 150
16×24 – Hand numbered edition of 150

“Happy Trails, Hans.” (Nakatomi Title Variant)
24×36 – Hand numbered limited-edition of only 40.
16×24 – Hand numbered limited-edition of only 40.

“Happy Trails, Hans.”
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"Happy Trails, Hans." by Bryan Johnson

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