Its Too Late For Bruce Willis To Make Another Die Hard

It’s Too Late For Bruce Willis To Make Another Die Hard

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It’s still possible that Bruce Willis will return in a Die Hard 6, but at this point, it’s just too late for him to do that in a satisfactory way.

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Its Too Late For Bruce Willis To Make Another Die Hard

As beloved as John McClane is, it’s too late for Bruce Willis to return for Die Hard 6. While the debate over whether or not Die Hard is a Christmas movie shows no signs of dying, there’s no real debate that it’s one of the best action movies ever made. So much comes together to make Die Hard what it is, including a well-paced, sharp-witted script that makes sure the thrills never pause for too long once they’ve started. Still, that script wouldn’t work without a great cast, and Willis leads that group of excellent performances.

As easy as Alan Rickman’s Hans Gruber is to both love and hate due to being so entertaining, a villain is nothing without a hero, and John McClane is perhaps the ultimate blue-collar action lead. A New York City cop that’s only in Los Angeles to try and reconcile with his estranged wife Holly, John is a fish out of water, but once criminals are afoot, he’s back in his element and ready to act. John is no Superman, but he’s the best chance Nakatomi Plaza’s got.

While many Die Hard devotees have taken issue with how John has become less and less of an every-man and more of a one-man army over the course of the franchise, it’s still safe to say that millions still love both John and Willis’ portrayal of him. Unfortunately, Die Hard has seen better days as a property, with director John Moore’s A Good Day to Die Hard getting trashed by critics and even being enough to send many formerly loyal fans running for the hills. A Die Hard 6 featuring Willis’ return as John has been threatened several times in the years since, but at this late stage, that ship has truly sailed. It’s time for Willis to let John McClane rest.

The Last Two Die Hard Movies Were Disappointing

Its Too Late For Bruce Willis To Make Another Die Hard

When a movie is as great as Die Hard, it’s no surprise that none of its sequels have measured up. It’s a tall bar to clear. Still, Die Hard 2 and Die Hard with a Vengeance definitely have lots of admirers, and plenty of franchise devotees consider them to be, at the very least, worthy follow-ups. Although Willis actually doesn’t like Die Hard 2 much. It’s with the fourth Die Hard movie, 2007’s Live Free or Die Hard, that cracks started to show in the series’ foundation. It’s certainly still fun to watch Willis’s McClane take down various bad guys, and there are some jaw-dropping action sequences, but the move to PG-13 from the R-rating did the movie no favors. While not the hardest Rs in the world, the first three Die Hard movies never shied away from embracing the freedom such a rating offered when it came to adult language and graphic violence.

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The change to PG-13 for Live Free or Die Hard, which introduced John McClane’s daughter Lucy, was very noticeable, as it felt punches were being pulled all over the place. Outside of that, the sudden change from McClane being an every-man to superhero was jarring and hurt the character. McClane made it out of the first three movies by the skin of his teeth, but in Live Free or Die Hard, he repeatedly survives things that should’ve left him a mangled corpse. A Good Day to Die Hard went back to an R-rating, but sadly, that couldn’t help save an awful script, Jai Courtney giving a flat performance as John McClane’s son, and Willis himself seeming to sleepwalk through the proceedings. Yippee Ki-Yay Mother Russia, indeed.

Bruce Willis Has Embraced STV Action Films

Its Too Late For Bruce Willis To Make Another Die Hard

In the last decade or so, Willis has seemed happy to carve out a niche for himself in the world of direct to video action movies. So far, though, none have made the list of movies Willis publicly regrets making. Sometimes he plays a major role in them; other times, he makes an extended cameo long enough to justify his name being on the poster. It’s a win-win for Willis, as he pockets what one presumes are thousands of dollars for only a few days work on set, and the movie in question gets to use the name and face of one of the biggest action stars of all time to help their movie stand out on store shelves or in instant streaming queues.

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Whatever the reasons are for Willis’ career change, and it’s hard to imagine he couldn’t get a meaty role in a major studio movie if he wanted one, it seems to be working well enough for him. As much as the Die Hard franchise likely means to Willis, who, for the record, doesn’t think Die Hard is a Christmas movie, he really did seem disinterested during a lot of A Good Day to Die Hard. That could partially be blamed on the script, as perhaps Willis knew what he was being given to perform wasn’t up to snuff. Still, if he doesn’t want to be there for any reason other than money, it would be better if he stayed away from a Die Hard 6.

The Die Hard Franchise Should Be Retired

On that note, it’s not only Bruce Willis that should stay away from making a Die Hard 6; it’s Hollywood as a whole. In this age of studios desperately trying to extract every bit of cash they can get from their existing intellectual property, it’s not surprising that Fox/Disney wants to make another Die Hard. They’ve certainly tried pretty hard to get a prequel or another sequel in motion in the last few years. Yet, to paraphrase Jurassic Park’s Ian Malcolm, Fox seems so preoccupied with whether or not it can make a Die Hard 6 happen that they’re not stopping to consider if they should.

The evidence is readily available as to why they shouldn’t. Live Free or Die Hard was a clear step or two below the first three, and A Good Day to Die Hard’s quality full-on jumped off a cliff. Willis doesn’t seem very enthused about doing any more physically taxing leading action roles, and if he brings the barely-there energy he had in A Good Day with him to Die Hard 6, the movie is doomed. Yet, he’s so synonymous with Die Hard – despite Willis being controversial casting at the time – that replacing him as lead is a fool’s errand. More and more, it would appear that Die Hard never should’ve left the 1980s and 1990s, as it’s felt like a franchise out of time since. Die Hard works best when it’s at least mostly grounded in reality, while today’s Fast and Furious dominated era demands crazier, suspension of disbelief-shattering action set-pieces. Die Hard is a ghost of Christmas past, not its future.

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