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Philip Bradley Bird (born September 24, 1957) is an American filmmaker, animator, and voice actor. He has had a career spanning over four decades in both live-action and animation. Bird was born in Montana and grew up in Oregon. He developed an interest in the art of animation early on, and completed his first short subject by age 14. Bird sent the film to Walt Disney Productions, leading to an apprenticeship from the studio's Nine Old Men. He attended the California Institute of the Arts in the late 1970s, and worked for Disney shortly thereafter. In the 1980s, Bird worked in film development with various studios. He co-wrote Batteries Not Included (1987), and developed two episodes of Amazing Stories for Steven Spielberg, including its spin-off (based on a segment written by Bird for the show), the widely panned animated sitcom Family Dog. Afterwards, Bird joined the animated sitcom The Simpsons as creative consultant for eight seasons. He directed the animated film The Iron Giant (1999); though acclaimed, it was a box-office bomb. Bird moved to Pixar where he wrote and directed two successful animated films, The Incredibles (2004) and Ratatouille (2007). They earned Bird two Academy Awards for Best Animated Feature wins and Best Original Screenplay nominations. He transitioned to live-action filmmaking with similarly successful Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol (2011), he then directed Disney's Tomorrowland (2015). He returned to Pixar to develop Incredibles 2 (2018), which became the second-highest-grossing animated film of all time during its theatrical run, and earned him another nomination for the Academy Award. Bird has a reputation for supervising his projects to a high degree of detail. He advocates for creative freedom and the possibilities of animation, and has criticized its stereotype as children's entertainment, or classification as a genre, rather than an art. Description above from the Wikipedia article Brad Bird, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
During a party, Lucy McClane (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) is kidnapped by an unknown group of German terrorists. 3 weeks goes by and no one has heard from her since the night of the party, Authorities give up their search and presume that she was killed but when a video of Lucy being held hostage and warning everyone that the terrorists plan on dropping an atomic bomb on America unless their needs are met is nationally televised around America. Within 40 minutes of the hostage video being aired the McClane residence gets a mysterious phone call from who seems to be the leader of the terrorist group, he exclaims that he will kill John and his family and finally get his revenge and right before he hangs up the phone he says "Gruber Out". The NYPD discover that the leader of the terrorist group is Frederick Gruber (Tom Hiddleston), Simon Gruber's son and the last known relative of both Hans and Simon. John McClane (Bruce Willis) comes out of retirement and returns to the NYPD for one last mission, to save his daughter. John must now team up with the NYPD's Prodigy, Tyreese Bane (Lakeith Stanfield) along with a few old friends in order to save and Lucy and prevent America from becoming a nuclear wasteland.
