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Why is it creative though? It's an origin story prequel.Year One sounds more interesting to me than Live Free or A Good Day, to be honest. It sounds like they're actually trying something different and being creative. And it actually has source material too (the comics), so at least they have a blueprint to draw from and they're not making up some random terrorist plot for the dozenth time.
This prequel is going to be awful because they can't do anything of scale in it. They can't top Die Hard because Die Hard is the defining moment of John McClane becoming the man he is. Before that he was just an average cop with no particular fame or noterity. He was a nobody.
What can they do? Have him stop an armored car heist? They can't make it too epic or exciting because it reduces the heroism of Nakatomi Plaza.
He will be more present than that. This character of course is modern day and the origin story if you can call it that has ramifications on present day McClane. What it’s not is it’s not a cameo bookend scenario. It’s a prequel/sequel hybrid that I really haven’t seen before and is incredibly different.
http://www.joblo.com/movie-news/bruce-willis-appearance-in-die-hard-year-one-will-be-more-than-a-cameo-935
Bruce Willis has said that his role will be more than a cameo.
I assume that the story is modern day John remembering one of his earlier cases to help him stop some bad guy in the present. Or that the events in the modern day story will cause John to think about events in his past and the film will periodically cut to the past and show us things that happened in 1979. So the modern day stuff will probably have the usual larger than life Die Hard style shenanigans.

Goodie.It definitely sounds like they are sinking to Terminator Genisys depths here.

We both know that probably won't happen. This is the same director who made McClane hang onto the wing of a jet.
All that was post-Die Hard though, which is fine. Doctor Jones' comment was highlighting the unlikeness of anything pre-Die Hard being a low-key affair (which it should be) due to the director setting a precedent for going over the top.
I thought the plane scene was badass. Did not mind at all.
Still this is a stupid idea