Yippi ki Yay!:Die Hard 5 is Affluent!

[Darth Cruel]

Good deal. Die Hard 4 was great. I even liked the kid from the Mac commercial ... kinda hope they bring him back.

("Affluent" sounds like the wrong word, though. Doesn't that mean "rich"? "Die Hard 5 is rich" doesn't make sense.)

SnakeDoc

Yeah...I also think Bruce was having fun. He noted that he was mis-using words at the end.


And I am definitely on board with going back to a R rating on 5. The Die Hard movies are about the only action movies that I like a lot. But I really want to see them get back to Nakatomi McLane and get away from Superman McLane and "can't-act-when-he-is-laying-on-a-snow-covered-runway" McLane.

I would like to see a scenario that has a McLane with more seniority called in as a mediator/negotiator to a terorist/hostage situation and then a believable incident dragging him on the inside and then the guys on the ground having to keep the bad guys from knowing that he is inside the building because they know he is a badass in that capacity. Then as the terrorists are going about their business in the building and leave the hostages with minimal guard...John gets the hostages away from them and hides them because there are too many terrorists to walk them out of the building, and he can only signal the guys outside to come in from way up on the upper floors by hand signals because he has no other com with them. The SWAT guys go in..but with no com with McLane, they have to go room-to-room. Then the bad guys find out McLane and SWAT are coming after them and that the hostages have been moved. And the rest of the movie is a race for the bad guys to find and kill the hostages, McLane to stop them one or two at a time, and the SWAT guys to endlessly fail as they do in every other Die Hard movie.

Well...that is something like I might do it.

 

[daikkenaurora]

Interesting.... very interesting.

 

[gotham_collector87]

Is it sad that Im already looking forward to the HTs for this movie?

 

[intothevoid]

I loved 4, yeah i know it was far fetched and toned down, but it was great entertainment

 

[SnakeDoctor]

Man I thought they had covered all the possible scenarios for a Die Hard movie, but I guess they saved one more for the fifth.

Apparently, one of the early scripts was for a Jack Bauer/ John McClane crossover movie. The rumor was that it had been pitched to Keifer Sutherland, but Sutherland and the 24 crew wanted their own franchise.

https://movies.ign.com/articles/109/1095964p1.html

Justin Long confirmed the story.

https://www.24spoilers.com/2010/09/07/justin-long-confirms-scrapped-die-hard-24-crossover-movie/

I agree with Sutherland ... keep the franchises separate. But, it would've been an interesting pairing. Its hard to imagine John McClane as the good cop.

SnakeDoc

 

[Devil_666]

 

[a-dev]

I hadn't heard about that 24/Die Hard crossover rumour before. Might have been interesting actually.

 

[SnakeDoctor]

I hadn't heard about that 24/Die Hard crossover rumour before. Might have been interesting actually.

I'm not a huge proponent of crossovers, but it would've been interesting. I actually thought Fox should've done a House/ 24 crossover ... House needs to save a guy fast so Bauer can interrgate him. I think it would've worked. Seeing House and Bauer go head-to-head would've been cool.

I think the title may have stuck ... the rumored title is of Die Hard 5 is "Die Hard 24/7".

SnakeDoc

 

[plasmid303]

I agree with the sentiment of keeping the franchises separate. By forcing a crossover, something's gotta give. Either they go with the 24 hour formula and mess up the Die Hard style, or Bauer ends up being thrown into a Die Hard flick without the narrative style that makes his series so unique.

 

[hairlesswookiee]

I agree with the sentiment of keeping the franchises separate. By forcing a crossover, something's gotta give. Either they go with the 24 hour formula and mess up the Die Hard style, or Bauer ends up being thrown into a Die Hard flick without the narrative style that makes his series so unique.

Yeah combining both wouldn't work either as it would be too much going on at once. Unless they just did a brief cameo like the Eureka/Warehouse 13 crossover neither series would want to cave and alter what makes their formula work.

 

[Spartan Rex]

IGN:
The last time McClane was in action, he was Superhero-ing down an in-flight military jet. That's a far cry from "Shoot the Glass" Nakatomi Plaza.

So will a fifth and potentially sixth Die Hard get our former NYC cop back on track? If Bruce Willis has his way, then yes.

Willis, doing press for his new movie Red, said he wants to go two more rounds in the sleeve-less T-shirt before hanging up the .9mm Beretta, before he maybe gets replaced in the franchise.

"In the next few years they could easily find a replacement for me or call the character someone else," Willis told ShowbizSpy.com. "But for me, I want to do Die Hard 5, then one final Die Hard movie — Die Hard 6 — before finally hanging that white vest up for good."


Sadly, a Die Hard 5 and 6 means Willis will be too busy to give us Color of Night 2 and 3.

Willis also said that he is still in good shape to meet the physical demands of the franchise, "But there will come a time when I no longer want to do that," Willis said. And that is when he will walk away from the series.

So what's the word on Die Hard 5, aka Die Hard 24/7, aka Die Hard: Please Don't Subtitle Me That? Hitman screenwriter Skip Woods was hired to write the script for the film back in May, a script that is currently undergoing changes according to Willis. The hope is, McClane will hit theatres sometime next year.