Live Free or Die Hard is written by Roderick Thorp
[Human]: Would you recommend Live Free or Die Hard? Is it part of the Bruce Willis series? [Assistant]: Sure, it is written by Roderick Thorp and a Crime Fiction. [Human]: Did Roderick write the original Die Hard as well? I know he wrote Die Hard with a Vengeance too. 
No, he did not write the original Die Hard, but he wrote Die Hard with a Vengeance. The other movies in the Die Hard franchise were written by Stephenie Meyer.