There have always been some reservations about A Good Day to Die Hard, the fifth film in the Die Hard series; however, you don’t have to worry any more because director John Moore talked a little bit about the fifth installment with Empire and confirmed some of our fears. Moore indicated this wouldn’t be a light hearted roll in the hay and that glib jokes have no place in his Die Hard film: “No, because that’s preposterous! I don’t know whether it’s post-financial crash or whatever, but I don’t think people are in the mood for that bollocks anymore.” Ummm, are you familiar with action fans? Or Die Hard fans? Or John McClane!?! He went on to say, “People are well savvy to the cynical reheating of any product, any franchise. Any shit won’t do. The bar’s a bit higher.” Now that is true. Any crap won’t do, but they have to make sure they’re cutting out the right stuff and not what makes John McClane John McClane.
I’m a little worried about how A Good Day to Die Hard will turn out, but I’m keeping an open mind. After all, I was very happy to see Moore say this: “The scope along goes from New York to Moscow. It’s very, very international. There’s a car chase through Moscow that’s taking us 78 days to shoot.” 78 days to shoot a car chase!?! That had better turn out to be the modern equivalent of Bullitt’s car scene if it took that long to film.
This is the Action Flick Chick, and you’ve just been kicked in the ass!
A Die Hard without John McClane cracking wise would be like a Star Wars movie without light sabers. A Star Trek flick without phasers. Like Oprah without all the crying… OK, that last one would actually be an improvement, but you get my point.
As long as A Good Day to Die Hard is rated R and embraces the series’ traditional action and violence, the franchise will be fine.
By introducing McClane, Jr. into the series, it seems a sixth film is inevitable if the box office justifies it. The studio could continue the seires either with Willis as McClane or Courtney as McClane, Jr.
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