Somehow this missed my radar last week, so sorry that this is a little late but it's too good a story to just let it pass.
AICN are reporting that
Kevin Smith has a substantial role in
Live Free or Die Hard, his part for the movie taking five full days to shoot. This is what he said on his
blog entry (which sounded more like a love letter to
Bruce Willis) in the run up to Christmas...
"My summer of '88 was wiled away watching John McClane make fists with his toes, pull glass out of those same feet, curse like a sailor while he desperately kicked the ass of a thug twice his size, and end up stumbling half-dead out of a building by flick's end - one of the first action movie heroes to actually appear damaged by the adventure he'd just undertaken"."So last week, after I wrapped the "Manchild" pilot (which went phenomenally), the very next morning, I reported to work on a flick that'd reveal a heretofore unrealized dream I'd unwittingly harbored since I first watched David Addison limbo in the Moonlighting Detective Agency offices, twenty years prior...For five days, I acted opposite Bruce Willis in this summer's "Live Free or Die Hard" Remember back in 2003, Smith had a small role in
Daredevil which was really out of place and distracting? I'm expecting the same here, just for a longer period of time. You know, similar to
Simon Pegg's role in
Mission Impossible III, but again with slightly more scenes. With Kevin Smith and
Justin Long both in this film, anyone worried about potential one-liners ruining the film? source -
aintitcoolnews,
smith's blog