What’s your favorite Christmas movie? The only correct answer is Die Hard, the 1988 action thriller about a New York cop trapped in a high rise full of terrorists.
Bruce Willis, 62, has revealed this week that he will return for the sixth Die Hard film, but he won’t be the only actor playing John McClane.
After the poor performance of the most recent film, A Good Day to Die Hard, the creators decided to go back to the beginning. Die Hard Year One (working title) will act as both a prequel and a sequel with story lines bouncing between present-day and 1979.
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Deadline reports that Willis will return to play the seasoned main character, but casting has begun for a younger actor to portray McClane as a rookie beat cop. “The right casting for this role is crucial,” said Wiseman. “Those bare feet have some very big shoes to fill.”
This isn’t the first film where Bruce Willis and a younger actor split a role. Joseph Gordon-Levitt donned a prosthetic nose to look like a younger version of Willis in the 2012 film Looper about time traveling hit men.
Willis said he would be interested in making Die Hard 6 after A Good Day to Die Hard was released. “I’m really pleased to continue to be asked back to do other versions and other incarnations of Die Hard,” he said. “The first one really is… that’s all there is. Everything else is just trying to be as good as that film.”
The new film will be led by Len Wiseman who also directed the fourth movie, Live Free or Die Hard.
Do you think the new film will hold up to the original?
Take a trip down memory lane with the original trailer below. Don’t you miss movie-trailer-voice guy?