12 Movie Spoilers We Didn’t Know Last Week (24th Jan)
3. The Die Hard Prequel Sounds As Awful As You Always Thought It Would
Old habits die hard, like pretending you're still a welcome action hero two films after your franchise died on its backside and made the fatal error of turning to "big gun" Jai Courtney. Whether you like it or not, the Die Hard prequel is pressing ahead with Bruce Willis and someone playing him in his younger years, because everyone apparently needs to see him before he was a semi-washed out cop. In an interview with Collider, director Len Wiseman made some spurious statements about what everyone "wants" from the film - never once mentioning the desire for it not to exist at all:
After doing the fourth one, there were so many conversations that Bruce and I were having about what he put into the character for Die Hard 1. That character comes in with so much baggage, emotionally, and experience. Hes already divorced, hes bitter, his Captain hates him and doesnt want him back. So, what created that guy?
Weve never seen the actual love story. We know its demise, but weve never seen what it was like when he met Holly, or when he was a beat cop in 78 in New York when there was no chance of him making detective. Its always been something Ive been thinking about, and now were doing it. And it ties in.
Imagine thinking anyone wants to see that love story, or a happy McClane. The whole point is that he's fractured and interesting, and that his background is mysterious and intriguing: he arrived fully formed with some magic about him and now it's going to be sucked out needlessly.
