The upcoming 6th installment in the Die Hard franchise Die Hardest is well into the writing process, We'll see Mr.Willis will retun to the now legendary role John McClaine in is sixth adventure. The film is coming in light of the box office success of A Good Day To Die Hard, despite the film being critically panned and slammed.
There wasn't much information about the movie's plot, except that it might take place in tokyo. Now new information has arrived as writer Trebilcook dropped some interesting tid-bits of information in his interview with What Culture.
Here is what he said on the plot of the next installment "Hmm, what can I say? What can I say? What am I allowed to say? OK, without spoiling too much, I can say that McClane is invited to Tokyo by the Nakatomi Corporation to be commended for his bravery and efforts in saving 36 lives, celebrating this on the 30th anniversary of the Naktatomi Hostage Crisis. It’s by no means Black Rain. Perhaps has a slight Rising Sun type tone. It’s also not a double-act buddy-buddy story. McClain began on his own and should end on his own. Of course he’s had assistance in various guises, aiding him in his ventures; but it’s not Lethal Weapon or a Jackie Chan film."
It seems like the next installment is going to tie back in with the original 1988 Die Hard. He follows up by explaining John McClain's state in Die Hardest "McClane is a gunslinger. A now retired, worn-out, tired, busted and broken cowboy. Everything he’s been through has to be taken into account. Yes, it’s a movie, but he isn’t invincible. He was never Bond. That’s what was so appealing to me with Bruce’s character. He got hurt. I see the first one as a drama with elements of action. It took its time to set up the story and unfold great characters. I believe I got that and also what I call ‘the hose-reel moment’.
You know, when McClane, in the first Die Hard leaped off the building with a fire hose, before it went kaboom; in the second, he ejects himself from the plane when he’s surrounded by grenades and in the third, he’s shot out the tunnel, through the air with a gush of water. I’ve got that ‘hose-reel moment’, as well as that cringing ‘glass pulling from the feet’ type scene. Man, that gets me every time. Pursued by bad guys; does he face them and die, or retreat, barefoot, across broken glass? THEN picks out itty bitty shards from his cut feet."
The writer also hints at the return of Samuel L. Jackson's character "A few Japanese fans on Twitter put two and two together when I uploaded a picture of a Katana (Samurai Sword) with some kanji reading ‘Zeus’. Yes, I’ve written Zeus Carver in for Samuel L Jackson. Like I said before, it’s not a buddy-buddy script, but you can’t ignore him. Zeus played a major part in McClane’s life. They went through a lot together. They would certainly, without a doubt, still be in contact."
If all this turns out to be true, then i am certainly excited for the next installment of Die Hard. We have to keep in mind that this is from one guy and movies morph and change over time before it hits the big screen, so not everything in this project could come to fruition. Still we'll likely here more about the film in the future, but if they push this for a 2015 summer release I'm gonna lose it.
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