Bruce Willis confirms Die Hard 5

[Trekker4747]

Comparing Die Hard 4 to Indy 4 is like comparing a paper cut to a chainsaw up your rectum.

DH4 was "late to the game" with an aging action hero in it and had its absurd moments and even some absurd plot points but it was no where there mess of suck and fuck that Indy 4 was.

(For at the very least not trying to introduce us an annoying young character we're hinted at trying to take on the franchise, or does absurd looking and dumb things like that stupid scene with Mutt playing Tarzan with a bunch of CGI monkies. Ugh. Just thinking about the crap in Indy 4 makes me want to puke.)

 

[jefferiestubes8]

Die Hard - wannabe in space

While this is indirectly related... no news on DH5...

Paramount pictures who did not produce the Die Hard series purchased a script similar as the

Plot Concept: The trade describes the story as "Die Hard" on an alien spaceship.

Paramount Pictures has acquired screenwriter Jon Heffernan's untitled script centering within such story parameters.

Variety source

A terrorist thief on an alien ship?
I think this was already done.
Supernova (2000)

 

[Holdfast]

Re: Die Hard - wannabe in space

While this is indirectly related... no news on DH5...

Paramount pictures who did not produce the Die Hard series purchased a script similar as the

Plot Concept: The trade describes the story as "Die Hard" on an alien spaceship.

Paramount Pictures has acquired screenwriter Jon Heffernan's untitled script centering within such story parameters.

Variety source

A terrorist thief on an alien ship?
I think this was already done.
Supernova (2000)

Die Hard on a Spaceship?

Isn't that Alien? Ripley even wore the vest...

(TNG did it too: Starship Mine. I'm pretty sure the writers officially acknowledged the Die Hard homage in that one).

 

[bigdaddy]

Season 9 of 24 was gonig to have Jack fight aliens, so why not Die Hard in space.

 

[MPH]

Has he been transported into the future or has aliens taken over the planet Either way I hope its not true.

 

[Kelthaz]

Die Hard 4 already removed any semblance of John McClane being an average joe. I say go all the way and have McClane single-handedly wipe out an entire alien civilization. What do you have to lose at this point?

 

[Trubinator]

I enjoyed Live Free or Die Hard. The unrated version is especially good because it reincorporates the character's trademark profanity. I don't understand the hate; I mean, there hasn't been a classic Die Hard since the original. But they've all been good and above average.

 

[Sean Aaron]

I really enjoyed the fourth one as well. I thought it kept the spirit of the character whilst clearly showing that he's grown older. I definitely liked the fact that he wasn't fucking around when he was fighting for his life against the baddie's girlfriend. And I thought the kid was pretty good - very believable as someone who's totally overwhelmed rather than becoming an instant rambo, but rises to the occasion when required. I thought the ending was the strongest of all four flims.

If they can do the fifth one as well, I'll be there...well, on DVD anyway.

 

[Vendikarr]

Die Hard 5 should be on a cruise ship next. Lucy and mac guy are getting married on a cruise ship. John and Lucy are having a father/daughter moment just before she is supposed to walk down the aisle when the shit hits the fan.

John and Lucy then have to stop the terrorist/criminals and save her wedding.

Yea, I know it's like that Speed on a boat movie, but it would be much better as a Die Hard film.

The wedding scenario gives us a reason to have Holly there. I have read a lot of Die Hard fans would love to see John and Holly reunite.

 

[Base_Delta_Zero]

If they transplanted the "I ran out of bullets" line into the unrated cut of Live Free or Die Hard, I'd be perfectly satisfied with it. It's not as good as Die Hard, but then, what is? Can't wait for DH5 & 6. Really wish they'd cross-over with Jack Bauer somehow.

I'd rate them:

First Place: Die Hard

Second Place (Tie): Die Hard With A Vengeance, Live Free or Die Hard

Third Place: Die Harder

 

[Captaindemotion]

Die Hard 5 should be on a cruise ship next. Lucy and mac guy are getting married on a cruise ship. John and Lucy are having a father/daughter moment just before she is supposed to walk down the aisle when the shit hits the fan.

John and Lucy then have to stop the terrorist/criminals and save her wedding.

Yea, I know it's like that Speed on a boat movie, but it would be much better as a Die Hard film.

The wedding scenario gives us a reason to have Holly there. I have read a lot of Die Hard fans would love to see John and Holly reunite.

Originally, Die Hard Three was to be set on a boat and would have been a re-jigged version of a spec script called Dreadnought, but then Steven Seagal's under Siege pre-empted them.

 

[Brikar99]

Die Hard 5 should be on a cruise ship next. Lucy and mac guy are getting married on a cruise ship. John and Lucy are having a father/daughter moment just before she is supposed to walk down the aisle when the shit hits the fan.

John and Lucy then have to stop the terrorist/criminals and save her wedding.

Yea, I know it's like that Speed on a boat movie, but it would be much better as a Die Hard film.

The wedding scenario gives us a reason to have Holly there. I have read a lot of Die Hard fans would love to see John and Holly reunite.

Originally, Die Hard Three was to be set on a boat and would have been a re-jigged version of a spec script called Dreadnought, but then Steven Seagal's under Siege pre-empted them.

"Die Hard: Cruise Control"

 

[Aldo]

And I recall at one point the script that ended up becoming Die Hard 3 was being considered as a Lethal Weapon sequel.

 

[Samurai8472]

Re: Die Hard - wannabe in space

While this is indirectly related... no news on DH5...

Paramount pictures who did not produce the Die Hard series purchased a script similar as the

Plot Concept: The trade describes the story as "Die Hard" on an alien spaceship.

Paramount Pictures has acquired screenwriter Jon Heffernan's untitled script centering within such story parameters.

Variety source

A terrorist thief on an alien ship?
I think this was already done.
Supernova (2000)

Die Hard on a Spaceship?

Wasn't that called "The Fifth Element"?

 

[Captaindemotion]

And I recall at one point the script that ended up becoming Die Hard 3 was being considered as a Lethal Weapon sequel.

That's right, it was a spec script called Simon Says and was looked at for a potential LWIV, before becoming DH3.

None of the DH scripts started out as Die Hard movies. The original novel, Nothing Lasts Forever, was once envisaged as a Clint Eastwood vehicle (incidentally, the other novel featuring NLF's hero was filmed as The Detective in the 1960s, with Frank Sinatra in the lead), then a sequel to Commando. DH2 started off as an adatation of the unrelated novel 58 Minutes, until Fox boss Joe Roth pointed out its similarities to Die Hard and suggested that they retool it as a sequel. And DH4.0 was based on a magazine article.

 

[BenRoethig]

Really wish they'd cross-over with Jack Bauer somehow.

That was the original intention of Die Hard 24/7. Kiefer didn't want to do the crossover preferring Bauer get his own movie.

 

[Lonemagpie]

If they transplanted the "I ran out of bullets" line into the unrated cut of Live Free or Die Hard, I'd be perfectly satisfied with it.

there are two lines from the PG-13 cut that are actually better than their unrated equivalent. That's one of them, and the other is the replacement of "[I'll] get my daughter back, kill those motherfuckers" with [I'll] get my daughter back, kill everybody else" - there's just something about the delivery of "everybody else" that's hilarious in terms of implying that he knows there are no bystanders around, and that, being an action hero, he can happily kill... everybody there.

There needs to be a definitive cut with those two lines back in, and the rest of the profanity kept in.

 

[Base_Delta_Zero]

If they transplanted the "I ran out of bullets" line into the unrated cut of Live Free or Die Hard, I'd be perfectly satisfied with it.

there are two lines from the PG-13 cut that are actually better than their unrated equivalent. That's one of them, and the other is the replacement of "[I'll] get my daughter back, kill those motherfuckers" with [I'll] get my daughter back, kill everybody else" - there's just something about the delivery of "everybody else" that's hilarious in terms of implying that he knows there are no bystanders around, and that, being an action hero, he can happily kill... everybody there.

There needs to be a definitive cut with those two lines back in, and the rest of the profanity kept in.

I'd go with that.

 

[Immolatus]

another one

 

[barnaclelapse]

If they transplanted the "I ran out of bullets" line into the unrated cut of Live Free or Die Hard, I'd be perfectly satisfied with it.

there are two lines from the PG-13 cut that are actually better than their unrated equivalent. That's one of them, and the other is the replacement of "[I'll] get my daughter back, kill those motherfuckers" with [I'll] get my daughter back, kill everybody else" - there's just something about the delivery of "everybody else" that's hilarious in terms of implying that he knows there are no bystanders around, and that, being an action hero, he can happily kill... everybody there.

There needs to be a definitive cut with those two lines back in, and the rest of the profanity kept in.

Works for me.

Still very much looking forward to a fifth Die Hard. I think Willis is hanging in there the best of all the aging action heroes, and I would say he can definitely pull off another one.