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How about John McClane teaming up with...a cartoon rabbit?
A few scenarios that die hard 6 id like to see are:
John mclane goes back in time to the events of die hard 1, kills gruber before he reaches nakatomi and takes his place as the villain to see if he can defeat his younger self.
Or
Mclane dies at the begging so jack kidnaps johns body and fights crime with john being used as a puppet, weekend at bernies style.
Or
A prequel set when john was a 6 year old fighting corrupt teachers in his school. Prefect way to go back to the enclosed area only scenario of die hard 1.
Or
Mclane gets close with holly again only to find out that ashton kutcher is banging her so he just goes with it and shares holly. Only to find out later that ashton is the son of hans gruber.
Or
Mclane breaks into prison, kidnaps john mctiernan and forces him to give die hard back some dignity.
the end
How about John McClane teaming up with...a cartoon rabbit?
Plus, this flopped. Huge drop this weekend.
Here's how I approached it. I've done music work in the past and whether it's Bono or Mick Jagger, you're not going to tell them how to sing one of their songs, but you can construct the concert around them, you can move the lights, you can move the cameras, you can construct the imagery, but you're not going to say, "Mick, I think you should put your foot up on the monitor here during Brown Sugar." For a start, you'd be told to go **** yourself, but you also might be tampering with something that you yourself greatly admire, and I don't know if I want that. I want someone to have clean hands handling that lab sample, and Bruce has clean hands.
If he thinks of something, it's going to be McClane-esque with a 25-year study of it. If I think of something McClane-esque, it'll be with the consciousness of a fan. Am I going to be the wildlife photographer saying, here comes the snow leopard, let's film him, or shall we fake it in the studio? The approach was to take one constant, Bruce as McClane and he knows what to do, and put the rest around that. I'm confident that that was the smart thing to do. It also made sure he brought his A game, and the contract was I'll film it, you do your thing and I'll give you as much direction as you want, but know that I won't let you down.
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so Moore just outted himself as a helpless tool?
Clean hands? At any rate I'm pretty sure Bruce didn't design, shoot and edit the cluster**** action sequences.
If we're talking about the FINAL Die Hard (which I hope to Movie God we are), I actually think it should have something of a "greatest hits" feel. Especially for a franchise that has now had at least one installment across 4 different decades with the same lead character/actor, a little nostalgia element would go a long way toward giving the series and fans a proper goodbye. I'm not saying to do a complete retread the first one (I think we can all agree that would be a mistake), but bring back a major element of the first one (be it Nakatomi Plaza, or a Gruber, or whatever) and go back to the basics of what people fell in love with to begin with - which includes John feeling helpless and actually seeming like an underdog. Wrap up the through line of what has always really mattered to McClane while you're at - his relationship with his (whole) family - and I think that would help the franchise to go out on a graceful, dignified note.No offense to anyone in here but some of the idea feels more like an aging singers greatest hits album as opposed to a middle aged Bruce Springsteen still knocking out quality new material, which is what I think McClane should be.
Well, it was clear from the get go that DH5 was Bruce Willis' (freaky mutated abomination of a) baby through and through. Which now makes me believe that the DH universe is McTiernan and McTiernan only. Bruce don't know s**t about the character.
I doubt that. There were still McClane-esque moments in the film. I didn't see Bruce Willis as the problem behind Die Hard 5.
It's true. Skip Woods, the writer - with not one decent screenplay to his name - just happens to be Bruce's buddy. DH5 was Willis' first time acting as an Executive Producer on the series, and according to Woods, the whole story for AGDtDH was Bruce's idea, which he immediately called Woods up about it to invite him aboard. Willis was the one interviewing directors for the gig, too. It's impossible for me not put most of the blame for the current state of the franchise squarely on Bruce's shoulders at this point.
I mean, I wasn't too fond of DH4, but performance and reception-wise, it was definitely no franchise tanker. DH5, on the other hand, is just a disaster. So what changed from 4 to 5? Bruce's influence. The writing's on the wall, imo.
Actually, he's listed as an Exec Producer in DH5. And he's not in DH4.