Some guys have all the luck. Sometimes that luck is even good.
Rumors being what they are in the motion picture biz, take what I am about to relate with a five pound grain of salt. Feel free to wash it down with some industrial strength Perrier.
John McClane is making a comeback. If the name isn't as familiar as it should be, think cop with attitude. Then add unlucky, unruly and unshaven and you might be heading in the right direction.
Think Die Hard.
Everybody's favourite Christmas-time terrorist fighter is going to give it another go. Maybe. Like other movie franchises that get the hiccups (sorry, Indiana), this flick has been a long time in the making. It was almost made a couple of years ago, when Willis spent his time fighting bad guys in the jungle, but the producers changed direction. As such, there was no John McClane in Tears of the Sun.
Whether DH4 (an actual possible title) gets going this time is anyone's best guess. The only certainty is Willis in the starring role. The rest is rumor.
Such as John McTiernan directing again. McTiernan did an amazing job on the original. He also helmed the third film in the series, which was full of classic McClane moments, but ended up way overlong in the end.
The second prime rumor had Britney Spears getting the part of McClane's daughter, who supposedly gets kidnapped. I don't really know what to think of this one, although I have visions of moviegoers chanting "KILL HER" every time a bad guy shares the screen with poor Lucy McClane.
The third whopper is the star's desire to see John McClane go out with a bang. According to those in the know (who or whatever they are), Willis figures he'll finally be left alone if McClane is put in a body bag at the end of the flick.
That would make for a bittersweet ending to an exciting movie franchise. It would also be somewhat ironic, since Willis's career dies a little bit every time he plays a character NOT named John McClane.
Article comments
1 - Eric Olsen
Thanks Kevin, I would agree with everything but the last asessment: I think Willis has shown he fits in well in all kinds of movies and is a fine actor as well as movie star. I think his reputation has only grown from movies like The Sixth Sense, Unbreakable, Pulp Fiction, 12 Monkeys, etc.
Not that there haven't been clunkers, but I think his reputation is well established by now.