UPDATE: Wednesday, October 21, 2015 (01:42 pm ET) – It seems as though Bruce Willis is all for a prequel to his Die Hard franchise.
“It’s a very good idea, a really tricky idea, and I’m very happy about it,”; the actor told Entertainment Tonight. “It’s a really cool idea, because it’s the origin story. It’s gonna happen at the beginning of this. We’re going to bounce back and forth.”;
The prequel has garnered the working title of Die Hard Year One, and would largely be set in 1979, focusing on John McClane’s early years as a NYPD cop. 2007’s Live Free Or Die Hard director, Len Wiseman, has come up with the concept for the film and is on board to direct.
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Die Hard fans just might die when they hear this!
Although it’s in early discussion stages, Fox is in the midst of making a deal with Len Wisemen and producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura to make a sixth instalment of Die Hard.
If the stars align, the iconic action franchise that turned TV actor Bruce Willis into the blockbuster star he is today will be coming back one more time — but this time as prequel, focusing on NYPD officer John McClane became the butt-kicking, terrorist-fighting yippee-kay-yay-shouting guy we know and love.
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Rumours are swirling that Willis would work alongside a younger actor playing the character in his earlier days (an idea not that far from reality, as Joseph Gordon-Levitt actually did play a young version of Willis in Looper).
Wiseman did an amazing job reviving the Die Hard franchise back in 2007, so hopefully the 42-year-old director can pull it off one more time for Die Hard 6.
