Bruce Willis will retire John McClane after Die Hard 6
Here is what Bruce Willis had to say to Showbiz Spy about continuing on with the Die Hard franchise:
"In the next few years they could easily find a replacement for me or call the character someone else. 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. At the moment, I can run and I can fight on screen. But there will come a time when I no longer want to do that. That's when I'll step away from the Die Hard films."
A Good Day to Die Hard was released February 14th, 2013 and stars Bruce Willis, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Jai Courtney, Yuliya Snigir, Patrick Stewart, Megalyn Echikunwoke, Cole Hauser, Anne Vyalitsyna. The film is directed by John Moore.
Die Hardest comes to theaters in 2015 and stars Bruce Willis.
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Josh
derp.
2 years agoby @shuabertFlag
Masta_Chiefed
@mattbierwagen Meh. Thanks for proving my point for me. Now go back to cutting yourself.
2 years agoby @masta-chiefedFlag
Worth5Bucks
@masta-chiefed I already know everything you just told me. You know what else isn't legally plausible? A New York City cop getting clearance to do everything he did in each movie, especially in a different city. If you don't like my highly enjoyable and clearly whimsical suggestion for a plot that will clearly never be put in to action, then stfu and go waste your precious time on some other comment thread. So have a little respect man, don't be the ass who interrupts and picks an irrelevant debate in an article from six months ago; it will get you nowhere. Instead, you should take your problems to the New York Times and write columns on how our government is failing because of people like Arnold.
2 years agoby @mattbierwagenFlag
Masta_Chiefed
@shuabert Finally, some brevity.
2 years agoby @masta-chiefedFlag
Josh
Who says it even has to be the US president. Why can't McLane get caught up in an international political event? Maybe he's protecting the Austrian president while he is on a mission to the US. It wouldnt' be the first movie/show to have an assassination attempt on a foreign diplomat.
2 years agoby @shuabertFlag
Masta_Chiefed
@mattbierwagen I don't know where you go to Middle school, but your social studies teacher needs to be fired. ARNOLD was not born in this country. He could never be President of this country. You have to be born in this country to be president (It's a f*cking LAW). He was a terrible Governor.
Seriously, go pass the constitution test again cus I think you cheated the first time.
Your idea would be so unbelievable and poorly received it would damage the entire Die Hard series. Just think before you type.
2 years agoby @masta-chiefedFlag
Worth5Bucks
@masta-chiefed you didn't answer my question. If youd read the conversation, youd know i was only half serious when i suggested using arnold as president. And btw, i mean seriously douchebag, an entire state elected him governor.
2 years agoby @mattbierwagenFlag
Masta_Chiefed
@mattbierwagen Ok little buddy. Go make that petition and see how many people sign on for president who has a thick Austrian accent. I mean seriously.
2 years agoby @masta-chiefedFlag
Worth5Bucks
@masta-chiefed theres a lot of things that happen in die hard that aren't plausible, and have you even read the previous conversation about this?
2 years agoby @mattbierwagenFlag
Masta_Chiefed
@mattbierwagen Why would that be awesome? It's not legally plausible, and what demented type of movie fan would want their cinematic president brandishing an Austrian accent?
2 years agoby @masta-chiefedFlag
Worth5Bucks
@shuabert sorry this is a half a year old response but they could make arnold president! that be awesome
2 years agoby @mattbierwagenFlag
Josh
@mattbierwagen: Hey, I like that idea. I think they could also do something involving McLane's retirement, more appropriately in the last film. Like he is part of a law-enforcement retirement ball or something, and one of the former officers is now running for president or something and becomes a target. There are so many ideas that could work in the traditional Die Hard setting. But, I mean, a cruise ship works because it's basically like a hotel but it's in the middle of the ocean so no one can leave.
Oh, but if they do decide to do the White House, please make it a fictional administration. The idea of John McLane trying to save Obama is way too awkward and meta-crap for my taste.
3 years agoby @shuabertFlag
Cyn
@Worth5Bucks - true, he's a pretty decent supporting player. The thing is I like him as a screen presence but, like David Beckham, he opens his mouth to speak and just RUINS it! lol
A Bush-type character is a bit...cliche at this stage lol.
3 years agoby @cyn-de-harvenFlag
Worth5Bucks
@Cyn actually id want bush to come back for this one as president for comedic relief.
3 years agoby @mattbierwagenFlag
Worth5Bucks
@Cyn lol id love to see john mcclane on a treehouse swing . Stop all the neighborhood felons. Who needs neighborhood watch, when you have bruce willis with an ak and a badge on a treehouse swing lol. About statham i like it when hes in movies, i just dont like it when he stars. I love the italian job, and i loved the expendables.
3 years agoby @mattbierwagenFlag
Cyn
@Worth5Bucks. Okay. I could actually live with a Die Hard: Obama Drama idea. I'm not sure that it would be proper Secret Service protocol to have every single agent in the exact same room at the exact same time. But I've never worked for them, so you never know. Yeah, let's just keep him off a bus, a cruise ship, a plane, a treehouse swing, a circus tightrope or a Smartcar.
Still don't want to see Statham in anything. But that's in general, not Die Hard specific. lol
3 years agoby @cyn-de-harvenFlag
Worth5Bucks
@TheSinster1 maybe. it would be pretty sweet have die hard in the white house. The white house gets infiltrated. John McClane runs around shooting everyone trying to protect the president. While the secret service does a lousy job at their job. They all get killed in one abrupt scene. Leaving the President of the US of A solely in the hands of john mcclane and some other outside force that cant get to him, of course this outside force thinks that old john is just a run down hot shot cop who will end up getting the president killed in the end, but they cant get to him. Now that @Josh is DieHardy and @Cyn is not like speed 2. Great idea Sinister. Now we just gotta fit Statham in, i like this villian idea. Because statham is younger and nearly as BA as willis. Statham would clearly be foreign, so hed have to be mad at the president for something. And he would have insiders working at the white house so he could get in for the job.
3 years agoby @mattbierwagenFlag
Josh
@cyn-de-harven: Well, like Speed 2, except good.
3 years agoby @shuabertFlag
Shadow Of The Day
Cool.
3 years agoby @asifFlag
Cyn
@DARTH69. Oh Darth. Don't you have, like, a Dark Force to be with?...
3 years agoby @cyn-de-harvenFlag
Dan
@DARTH69 .....
3 years agoby @dan1Flag
DARTH69
BRING ON JACK MCCLANE!
3 years agoby @mikeg79Flag
DARTH69
WHAT ABOUT JOHN'S SON JACK? HE COULD BE A COP,THEY HAVE THEM FIGHT TOGETHER HIS FATHER IS KILLED BY THE END OF THE MOVIE AND JACK HUNTS DOWN HIS FATHER'S KILLER AND DOES WHAT HIS DAD DID BEST IN THE NEXT ONE
3 years agoby @mikeg79Flag
Cyn
@Josh. You mean like...Speed 2? Gah.
3 years agoby @cyn-de-harvenFlag
the Narrator
@Diaigma, dang it. Totally forgot about that. However, the last round of April fools was so far fetched I think we all saw it coming. :) Now 09's April Fools (or was it 08's?) was awesome with the rumor of Lucas passing the Star Wars torch to Snyder. Man the controversy on that thread was EPIC.
3 years agoby @narratorFlag
TheSinster1
@worth5bucks why not have Jason Statham play a bad guy in Die Hard make where John McClain is protecting his daughter as she is witness to murder and a plot to assassinate the President what do you think.
3 years agoby @rm6969Flag
Worth5Bucks
@josh that is a good idea, if only there was a way to get these people to listen to our ideas
3 years agoby @mattbierwagenFlag
Emmytt
cool
3 years agoby @emmyttFlag
Josh
I would like to see the franchise go back to its roots in the next film, or at least in the final film. I have loved all four of the movies, but each one feels less and less Die Hardy, you know? Personally, I think they should go back to the closed setting and/or the Christmas theme.
Here's an idea? McLane on a cruise ship that gets hijacked. You could go the Air Force One route and actually put him on a plane too, but that one is harder by nature to do, and politically touchy. Either way, he's been running around the city too much in the past two.
3 years agoby @shuabertFlag
Worth5Bucks
as long as they film it in r i dont have a problem if its pg13. @Gd94134 and @Xybernetic. Would you honestly enjoy it if there were 9 or more die hards? Why not have jason statham do another action flick similar to die hard and have that become international. Dont make him become john mcclane. Then the tag line could be "the successor of die hard" in stead of "John McClane is back and better than ever" and besides theoretically, if die hard goes to 6 movies it will have already become international. because John McClane has always saved something bigger each time.
3 years agoby @mattbierwagenFlag