Die Hard 4 News

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John McClane himself ponders another sequel

 

Rumors of a Die Hard 4 ranged from “It’ll never happen” to “Britney Spears will play John McClane’s daughter.” But now a screenwriter is at work on a script, and Bruce Willis himself explained why he chose to return to McClane for a fourth time.

 

“People wanted to see it,” Willis said. “People kept asking me about it.”

 

Willis said the project is still only in talks, and he’s having a hard time accepting a concept that would top the original trilogy. “We’re talking about it. We’re having a contest to come up with the ending. The problem is… I have no idea, what can we do? Have two planets crash into each other? Juggle an asteroid maybe?”

 

How about just fighting terrorists? We’ll see. Check out the link at right for more Die Hard 4 details from the screenwriter.

 

 

~ Fred Topel

 

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Mark Bomback on Die Hard 4

 

Screenwriter on the action sequel

 

I spoke to screenwriter Mark Bomback, who’s film Godsend is coming out soon. But his current project is the script for Die Hard 4, tentatively subtitled Die Hardest. Willis was noncommittal about the project, and though Bomback did his job of keeping the big secrets, but we do learn about the functions of the writer in the action franchise:

 

Is it really being called Die Hardest? It’s not going to be called Die Hardest, at least not to my knowledge.

 

 

I think that it was in development at one point and it might have been called Die Hardest, but it was an entirely different plot. It was a whole different movie. It wouldn’t make sense to call this one Die Hardest. Maybe they will, I don't know. There are worst titles in the world. I’ll tell you this. On my script pages, it doesn’t say Die Hardest.

 

Is there a different subtitle? We just call it Die Hard 4.

 

What guidelines were you given? I think the only big mandate was to make it feel like a Die Hard film. It’s a film that I grew up, especially Die Hard 1, I remember exactly what movie theater I saw it in. I remember exactly what it felt like to sit in a theater and watch it, so it’s a privilege to get to write a character that made an impact on you when you were 10-years-old.

 

What can you say about the story? Unfortunately, nothing. Sorry.

 

Is it still a father/daughter story? I can’t even discuss that. I wish I could. It would be fun to talk about it but it wouldn’t be fair to the people at Fox who are really working hard on it.

 

Is it true there are no terrorists? Can’t. Again.

 

What are your favorite aspects of John McClane? Well, for me, it’s a lot of fun. I don’t really write people who make wisecracks that often. The thing that I love and the tricky thing in writing it when I first did my first draft is this guy, like if you watch Die Hard 1 or Die Hard 2 or 3, he gets traumatized along the way in these awful ways that for any normal person would require weeks of therapy afterwards. Nevertheless, he bounces back within a minute to the next set piece. So I found that really disconcerting. How do you swing back from things? How do you make a wisecrack after you’ve just gone through something awful? I’m a normal person who would be completely debilitated by five minutes of any of those Die Hard plots. I wound up loving it. That’s the best part about writing Die Hard is something terrible can happen and within 30 seconds, someone can make a wisecrack about it. I just love the McClane character’s sense of humor. I really love the fact that he’s old school. I think about that character again from Die Hard 1 and he encapsulates a certain period of my life and thinking about superheroes or action heroes or however you might want to describe him. He’s a special kind of hero. He’s an everyman in the best sense of the word and I think that a lot of action movies since have picked up the wrong cues from Die Hard and will try to emulate the humor and the wisecracking but not realize that it’s the person who’s making the wisecrack that’s making those jokes work. He never thinks he’s too cool for school. That’s what’s great about McClane.

 

Is Zeus back? Zeus is not back to my knowledge, but again I can’t really even talk about it. Maybe he’ll make an appearance, I don't know. Certainly not yet.

 

Is Holly in it? Again, I can’t.

 

How did you land this gig? I had done a lot of work for Bruce Willis and Arnold Rifkin’s company, written two other scripts for them. And I had done some rewriting on a project called Me Again that Bruce was attached to. I think they were happy with my work on that. It was an action/thriller/comedy and I think it was the first time I got to write jokes. So I think they just liked the balance of that. Fox was looking for a writer and Fox had liked stuff I’d written as well. I got lucky. I can’t imagine I was the most obvious choice for a job like that, but hopefully they’re glad they hired me.

 

 

~ Fred Topel

[Guest Choken One]

STOP MAKING FUCKING SEQUELS!

[Guest TheZsaszHorsemen]

STOP MAKING FUCKING SEQUELS!

No. Fuck that. This is DIE HARD.

 

Bring it on.

[2GOLD 0]

STOP MAKING FUCKING SEQUELS!

 

Well, if they didn't make sequels we would never have gotten "Empire Strikes Back" and "Godfather II"

 

I just want them to stop making sequels to movies that don't even need sequels. Like "American Pie" or "Scooby Doo" or movies whose stories end in the first one.

 

This should end at three. I see no reason for a fourth one although Part 3 definately made up for Part 2.

[Slayer 0]

Well, if they didn't make sequels we would never have gotten "Empire Strikes Back" and "Godfather II"

The ratio of good sequels to bad sequels is rather low

 

Especially with the increased load of unnecessary/bad sequels unloaded by the Hollywood machine in the last four years

[SpikeFayeJettEdBebop 0]

Honestly, if WIllis wasnt back, i would be livid as shit right now, although, hes coming back, so im alright with this 4th one.No 5th though....def. not a 5th.

[The Electrifyer 0]

STOP MAKING FUCKING SEQUELS!

No. Fuck that. This is DIE HARD.

 

Bring it on.

Haha... I totally agree. So many other great movie franchise sequels suck, but Die Hard will break that curse. There hasn't been a Die Hard I haven't liked either.

[Guest TheZsaszHorsemen]

STOP MAKING FUCKING SEQUELS!

No. Fuck that. This is DIE HARD.

 

Bring it on.

Haha... I totally agree. So many other great movie franchise sequels suck, but Die Hard will break that curse. There hasn't been a Die Hard I haven't liked either.

DAMN STRAIGHT.

[Guest NaturalBornThriller4:20]

NO, FUCK THAT.

 

Bring back Zeus.

 

Willis and Jackson work well together.

[Guest wrestlingbs]

I watched Die Hard with a Vengeance a month ago on DVD on TV. And I gotta say, it still holds up after all these years.

 

Simon says die!

[Guest El Satanico]

I didn't care for the other two sequels, so yawn to a third.

[Guest I Got Banned for Sucking]

El Satanico, Die Hard was great, Die Hard 2: Die Harder wasn't bad and Die Hard: With A Vengeance was great for action.

 

In regards to a fourth film, if the characters are intact (which I am guessing that they will be), and it's not just there for the money, doesn't negate the franchise's credibility and closes the book on the adventures of John McClane rather nicely, unless there is the slim chance of keeping the series going, I agree with MrZsasz:

 

Bring it on.

[Youth N Asia 0]

While I like the first the best. Die Hard 2 and 3 were both kickass action movies. I'd love to see a 4th one before Willas got too old for the part, he could still pull it off now.

[Guest I Got Banned for Sucking]

While I like the first the best. Die Hard 2 and 3 were both kickass action movies. I'd love to see a 4th one before Willas got too old for the part, he could still pull it off now.

You're right, he could - which is why, if it was done right, I'd love to see it.

[Star Ocean 3 0]

Yippee kay ay. Mother Hubbard.

[Youth N Asia 0]

Yippee kay ay. Mother Hubbard.

No! NOT the edited for tv verison!

[Star Ocean 3 0]

But...Kurt Angle said it! While he was wearing the cowboy hat!

[Nevermortal 0]

"Thanks for your help back there Jesus."

 

"Who the fuck is Jesus? Do I look Puerto Rican to you? The man back there said "Hey, Zeus", you know, god of Thunder father of Apollo, Mount Olympus, shove up a lightning bolt up your fuckin' ass, ZEUS!"

 

Part 3 was the best.

[Guest El Satanico]

El Satanico, Die Hard was great, Die Hard 2: Die Harder wasn't bad and Die Hard: With A Vengeance was great for action.

I know the original is great, and while I know 3 is better than 2 I don't like either sequel. I do own all three on DVD, but I'm still not a fan of the sequels.