DIE HARD: YEAR ONE (Len Wiseman to Direct)

How the hell is 60 year old Bruce Willis gonna play a year one version of John McClane?
 
This series should Die



















Hard. First one is a cinematic icon all the others are fodder for USA,TBS, and TNT. Which is where I'll watch 6 when it bombs.
 
Dude's too old.

you know you would watch this......

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hopefully there is time travel involved to explain his age

Die hard..TO THE FUCKING PAST
 
A Good Day to Die Hard
Budget - $92 million
Box office - $304.7 million

How in the actual fuck does that happen.
 
hopefully there is time travel involved to explain his age

Die hard..TO THE FUCKING PAST

this explains it better

Willis will star as McClane in the modern day with another actor playing the younger version.

In 2012 Joseph Gordon-Levitt played a younger version of Willis in the 2012 film Looper but it is not known if he will be involved in this film.

The fifth film in the franchise, A Good Day To Die Hard, was released in 2013 and received poor reviews but still topped the box office.

Willis has previously hinted that he would like to return as his most famous character.

In an interview with The Daily Telegraph in 2013, he said: "I have a very warm spot in my heart for Die Hard. Just the novelty of being able to play the same character over 25 years and still be asked back is fun."

Wiseman is married to British actress Kate Beckinsale and is best known for his work on the vampire films Underworld.
 
he doesn't, he plays him in the modern day parts of the film

some younger actor will play the younger John

That's not much better imo. There's only one John McClane. Not a lot of actors out have there have the rugged grit required for the character.
 
Bunch of haters in here, stfu and enjoy the movie, these aren't academy award winning films to begin with, they are popcorn flicks, watch shit blow up and enjoy it you fucking cry baby bitches.
 
Bunch of haters in here, stfu and enjoy the movie, these aren't academy award winning films to begin with, they are popcorn flicks, watch shit blow up and enjoy it you fucking cry baby bitches.

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Len Wiseman in Talks to Direct DIE HARD Origin Story for Fox

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As Hans Gruber, his brother Simon and several other super villains can attest, it is hard to kill NYPD cop John McClane, despite that underwhelming last film. Fox is making a deal for Live Free Or Die Hard helmer Len Wiseman to return and develop with producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura a sixth installment of Die Hard, the venerable action series that overnight transformed Bruce Willis from a TV to a movie star back in 1988.

All of this is early, but they are referring to this as Die Hard Year One and Deadline is told that Wiseman and di Bonaventura are now looking for a screenwriter to script a reinvention of the venerable action series, one that is sort of a prequel while still leaving room for Willis to play McClane as well. Basically, he’ll bookend a story line that will be set much of the action in 1979, when McClane was a cop in gritty New York City and showing how he became a die hard kind of guy.

The idea of Willis working with a younger actor playing the same character is not unprecedented as Joseph Gordon-Levitt played the young version of him in Rian Johnson’s Looper. Wiseman did a good job giving the Die Hard franchise a second wind in 2007’s Live Free Or Die Hard, which grossed $383 million with a $134 million domestic gross. The last installment, the John Moore-directed A Good Day To Die Hard, though not a crowd pleaser, did gross just north of $300 million.


‘Die Hard’ Origin Story in the Works With Len Wiseman and Lorenzo Di Bonaventura
 
Origin story sounds like a really bad idea for Die Hard. The original was the fucking origin story. He was just a gritty cop who decided to fight back that night. If they do it, it would have to be a lot different than the rest of the Die Hard series in a much smaller but equally dangerous scale. No giant heists and headline making crazy action events. If that happened he would have already been known.

Personally, if they did an origin story make it about the Gruber bros.
 
After the last couple films, to hell with Die Hard. Shit ended with the third movie.
 
Bunch of haters in here, stfu and enjoy the movie, these aren't academy award winning films to begin with, they are popcorn flicks, watch shit blow up and enjoy it you fucking cry baby bitches.

The original Die Hard is the greatest action movie of all time. Original, well written, and superbly acted.

Every Die Hard since has been a generic hack jobs with the Die Hard label slapped on to sell tickets.
 
Every Die Hard since has been a generic hack jobs with the Die Hard label slapped on to sell tickets.

With a Vengeance did have some legitimately decent acting and some interesting plot twists. Jeremy Irons was wonderful and Bruce Willis still cared enough about John McClane that he didn't phone it in. It was the absurd, doesn't-take-itself-seriously finale that the series required.
 
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