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Post subject: Die Hard: Year One (Movie) (201?) Posted: Fri Oct 16, 2015 7:31 pm |
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Quote: ‘Die Hard’ Origin Story On The Drawing Board With Director Len Wiseman And Lorenzo Di Bonaventura
As Hans Gruber, his brother Simon and several other supervillains can attest, it is hard to kill NYPD cop John McClane, despite that underwhelming last film. Fox is making a deal for Live Free Or Die Hard helmer Len Wiseman to return and develop with producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura a sixth installment of Die Hard, the venerable action series that overnight transformed Bruce Willis from a TV to a movie star back in 1988. All of this is early, but they are referring to this as Die Hard Year One, and I’m told that Wiseman and di Bonaventura are looking for a screenwriter to script a reinvention of the venerable action series, one that is sort of a prequel while still leaving room for Willis to play McClane as well. Basically, he’ll bookend a story line that will set much of the action in 1979, when McClane was a cop in gritty New York City and showing how he became a die hard kind of guy.
While di Bonaventura is Paramount-based, he’s involved here because Fox sought to convert one of his projects into a Die Hard movie (same as was done with 1995’s Die Hard: With A Vengeance, which came from a spec script titled Simon Says). Wiseman came up with a new angle that he pitched to di Bonaventura, who’s staying involved here and will produce with the director. Di Bonaventura is certainly adept at tent poles and he also has a strong relationship with Willis, who doesn’t have a deal but has been kept in the loop every step of the way.
The idea of Willis working with a younger actor playing the same character is not unprecedented as Joseph Gordon-Levitt played the young version of him in Rian Johnson’s Looper. Wiseman did a good job giving the Die Hard franchise a second wind in 2007’s Live Free Or Die Hard, which grossed $383 million with a $134 million domestic gross. The most recent installment, the John Moore-directed A Good Day To Die Hard, though not a crowd pleaser, did gross just north of $300 million in 2013, showing the viability of the franchise. I’m told a lot of screenwriters covet this movie, because let’s face it, McClane is one of the great action movie characters of the past 40 years. Wiseman’s repped by CAA. http://www.deadline.com/2015/10/die-har ... 1201582142
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Post subject: Die Hard: Year One (Movie) (201?) Posted: Fri Oct 16, 2015 7:41 pm |
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I'm so sick of origin stories. The recent movie about Peter Pan (flopped) had to be about about how Peter Pan became Peter Pan.
The recent Dracula movie was about how Dracula became Dracula.
I like discovering characters and learning more about them as time goes on. This current obsession with reboots and origin stories is taking away the fun and mystery out of everything.
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Post subject: Die Hard: Year One (Movie) (201?) Posted: Fri Oct 16, 2015 7:42 pm |
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It's not going to happen, but it would be SO funny and appropriate if this movie----presumedly without Bruce Willis----were to be directed by Kevin Smith.
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Post subject: Die Hard: Year One (Movie) (201?) Posted: Fri Oct 16, 2015 7:44 pm |
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NO. JUST NO.
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Post subject: Die Hard: Year One (Movie) (201?) Posted: Fri Oct 16, 2015 7:47 pm |
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Quote: when McClane was a cop in gritty New York City and showing how he became a die hard kind of guy. What the hell is wrong with them? That's what Die Hard is about.
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Post subject: Die Hard: Year One (Movie) (201?) Posted: Fri Oct 16, 2015 8:40 pm |
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I think a Die Hard movie with a flashback to a previous relevant McClane adventure could be interesting as an intertwined plot point (like Looper, only without time travel), but making it an origin/reboot/year one doesn't appeal to me.
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Post subject: Die Hard: Year One (Movie) (201?) Posted: Fri Oct 16, 2015 8:56 pm |
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Rafael wrote: NO. JUST NO. This x 1000.
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Post subject: Die Hard: Year One (Movie) (201?) Posted: Fri Oct 16, 2015 10:59 pm |
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Rafael wrote: NO. JUST NO. To this movie, or my idea of this movie being directed by Kevin Smith? 
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Post subject: Die Hard: Year One (Movie) (201?) Posted: Sat Oct 17, 2015 7:17 am |
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(T)Eddy wrote: Rafael wrote: NO. JUST NO. To this movie, or my idea of this movie being directed by Kevin Smith?  Both, but a Die Hard movie directed by Smith is just a bad idea. A reboot is a mind bogglingly stupid idea.
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Post subject: Die Hard: Year One (Movie) (201?) Posted: Wed Oct 21, 2015 7:54 am |
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This movie was already made. It was the Detective and it starred Frank Sinatra.
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Post subject: Die Hard: Year One (Movie) (201?) Posted: Wed Oct 21, 2015 10:03 am |
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Li'l Jay wrote: I'm so sick of origin stories. The recent movie about Peter Pan (flopped) had to be about about how Peter Pan became Peter Pan.
The recent Dracula movie was about how Dracula became Dracula.
I like discovering characters and learning more about them as time goes on. This current obsession with reboots and origin stories is taking away the fun and mystery out of everything. I'd watch a sequel to that Dracula movie. It was as if Highlander had shown all of the Scotland bits and then ended with him showing up in the 1980's.
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Post subject: Die Hard: Year One (Movie) (201?) Posted: Wed Oct 21, 2015 10:25 am |
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Year One?! 
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Post subject: Die Hard: Year One (Movie) (201?) Posted: Wed Oct 21, 2015 10:33 am |
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Get ready for a younger actor doing a bad impersonation of Bruce Willis/John McClane, minus the charisma.
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Post subject: Die Hard: Year One (Movie) (201?) Posted: Wed Oct 21, 2015 10:40 am |
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Junkie Luv wrote: Get ready for a younger actor doing a bad impersonation of Bruce Willis/John McClane, minus the charisma. Guess you missed White House Down. 
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Post subject: Die Hard: Year One (Movie) (201?) Posted: Wed Oct 21, 2015 11:24 am |
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Post subject: Die Hard: Year One (Movie) (201?) Posted: Wed Oct 21, 2015 11:37 am |
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Post subject: Die Hard: Year One (Movie) (201?) Posted: Wed Oct 21, 2015 1:17 pm |
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Li'l Jay wrote: I'm so sick of origin stories. The recent movie about Peter Pan (flopped) had to be about about how Peter Pan became Peter Pan.
The recent Dracula movie was about how Dracula became Dracula.
I like discovering characters and learning more about them as time goes on. This current obsession with reboots and origin stories is taking away the fun and mystery out of everything. You're right. I wonder where the obsession came from? How did society get to this point? I'd like to see a film that explores the origin of this phenomenon, starting at its very beginning and then moving forward in chronological order. Get it? You guys all get what I did, right? Except for Jeff, it was probably over his head, but the rest of you got it, right? Also, it is the movie studios' legal right to make origin movies.
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Post subject: Die Hard: Year One (Movie) (201?) Posted: Wed Oct 21, 2015 1:24 pm |
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It shall be titled Origin Stories: Origins.
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Post subject: Die Hard: Year One (Movie) (201?) Posted: Wed Oct 21, 2015 2:01 pm |
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Ocean Doot wrote: Li'l Jay wrote: I'm so sick of origin stories. The recent movie about Peter Pan (flopped) had to be about about how Peter Pan became Peter Pan.
The recent Dracula movie was about how Dracula became Dracula.
I like discovering characters and learning more about them as time goes on. This current obsession with reboots and origin stories is taking away the fun and mystery out of everything. You're right. I wonder where the obsession came from? How did society get to this point? I'd like to see a film that explores the origin of this phenomenon, starting at its very beginning and then moving forward in chronological order. Get it? You guys all get what I did, right? Except for Jeff, it was probably over his head, but the rest of you got it, right? Also, it is the movie studios' legal right to make origin movies.  That guy there, he gets it!
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Post subject: Die Hard: Year One (Movie) (201?) Posted: Wed Oct 21, 2015 2:28 pm |
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How did Patton Oswalt say it?
Something like, "I don't need to know where all the stuff I love comes from! I just love the stuff that I love!!"
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Post subject: Die Hard: Year One (Movie) (201?) Posted: Wed Oct 21, 2015 2:49 pm |
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Professor Plum wrote: How did Patton Oswalt say it?
Something like, "I don't need to know where all the stuff I love comes from! I just love the stuff that I love!!" Fake fan.
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Post subject: Die Hard: Year One (Movie) (201?) Posted: Wed Oct 21, 2015 3:25 pm |
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Professor Plum wrote: How did Patton Oswalt say it?
Something like, "I don't need to know where all the stuff I love comes from! I just love the stuff that I love!!" Do you like Angelina Jolie?
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