Next Die Hard Will Be Set In Japan

[cjbos81]

I wonder if the plot will involve someone named Takagi.

Like a distant relative or something.

 

[Skeleon]

Do people still care about this series? I saw the fourth one and lost all interest after that. I'm sure I'll watch Die Hard and Die Hard 2 at some point again, but come on. At some point you need to let your series die. Indy 4 taught us that. And, no, I don't mean The Fate of Atlantis, which would have been a much better story for a fourth movie.

 

[Darks63]

So will Jai Courtney be making a return as his son or did the plans to have him take over the franchise scrapped?

 

[Callate]

We have now gone from "Oh, they're still making those? Cool." to "Another one? Huh, whatever" and are now traipsing heedlessly towards the verdant borders of "Dear God, will they @#$%ing stop already?"

 

[WanderingFool]

Is the sixth movie going to be basically "Bruce Willis Vs Dragon Ninja"?

 

[VoidWanderer]

Oh... dear.

I figured DH5 was bad, and am glad I didn't bother with it.

This series is getting as repetitive as the Dynasty Warriors series

 

[Kinitawowi]

I understand that Willis said a while back that he thought six was his limit, so hopefully this'll be a decent wrapup.

4 was actually pretty good. 5 was utter dogshit with irrelevant themes and one decent action scene that shot its bolt fifteen minutes into the film. I was hoping Die Hard 6: Die Hard With A Pension would bring us all the way back round to Die Hard 1 style Nakatomi stuff (and given that the last two movies have been about John reconnecting with his family, I'm hoping for Holly to make a comeback); if they can use the late Mr Takagi's Tokyo arm it might work.

If it descends into "McClane blows things up again BUT THIS TIME IN JAPAN!", though, it's gonna suck hardcore.

 

[kailus13]

I'd like it to be called Die Hard 5: #yoloswag

Only one problem with that. This is the 6th one. XD

I hope they do set a gunfight in Akihabara. Explosions everywhere, dakimakura burning, otaku crying at their waifus death...

 

[nexus]

Die Harderer 5 looked amazingly awful. I loved the trilogy & Live Free and Die Harded was "okay". Die Hard 4 was what I considered "taking the piss" as the franchise finale. Nope.

I guess we're doing this?

 

[James Joseph Emerald]

No, they would reboot it as Die Hard: Resurrection with Shia LaBeouf, and then make sequels with titles like Revengeance, Die Again, Die Harder Than This, Dead Hard, Just Die Already, Why Won't You Die? and such.

What about Die-monds Are Forever (Hard)?

Never Say Die Hard
The Die is Cast Hard
Whom The Gods Love, Die Hard
Young Men May Die, But Old Men Must Die Hard
Do or Die Hard
Only the Good Die Hard
Call no Man Happy Until he Dies Hard


Plenty of sequel material there.

 

[The Sanctifier]

Just so long as its got plenty of laughs and action I'm cool with it. I was never really expecting Die Hard 5 to be a deep enlightening film, just something to watch on a social occasion .

 

[Starik20X6]

It needs to be called Old Habits Die Hard, or I'll be annoyed.

I could probably forgive all past sins, if the plot involved the Nakatomi Corporation HQ in Tokyo and the chairman was played by Sonny Chiba.

Holy shit yes. I can see it now...

While drinking at a bar, John runs into Zeus, who asks him if he ever got things with patched up with Holly. Turns out Holly has moved to Japan after divorcing John, and has become a very powerful player at Nakatomi. Upon Zeus' insistence, John travels to Japan to see Holly, and learns the Nakatomi Corporation has deep debts to the Yakuza. On the way to visit Holly, a news report informs John the Nakatomi building is being attacked by Yakuza thugs who have come to collect, and are in a standoff with the police. But it turns out it's not the Yakuza, it's an unaffiliated group of criminals who are trying to trick the Nakatomi people into paying the debt to them, and pinning the blame for the dead hostages/damages on the Yakuza. Explosions and killing ensue.

 

[[Kira Must Die]]

I... what? After the train wreck that was 5? Really? I loved the first three films, 4 was mediocre, but 5 was godawful. And now a sixth film set in Japan? Even the title tells you they are running out of ideas. What's next? The seventh film taking place in space? *Insert witty Fifth Element/Armageddon/etc. joke here*

At least get a director who knows how to hold the camera steady this time... and has presumably seen the first three movies.

 

[Gigano]

You know what? I'm starting to understand the actual underlying plot of the movie series.

After the events of Die Hard 1, McClane developed a crippling case of what could only be described as a variant of the Münchausen syndrome.[footnote]Traditionally, Münchausen syndrome is when a person start repeatedly faking certain illnesses in hopes to draw a sympathetic attention and support to himself. This often happens after a person was authentically sick once, got used to the attention that he received at the time and starts wanting the same amount of attention once he's cured.[/footnote] This version, however, has him secretly manipulating crime bosses into planing daring heists in areas, where he can play the role of an innocent passerby who can take matters into his own hands and save the day.

Of course, having secret ties with the underground world is not cheap and McClane doesn't look like a rich man. That's simple to explain. In the chaos of the Nakatomi Plaza raid (DH1), McClane managed to stash away some of the stolen bonds for himself. He's been keeping his hidden wealth a secret, since he wouldn't be able to explain to the authorities why he suddenly became so rich and with it, he's been living a double life as some sort of information broker for crime syndicates, which is how he's able to set up these events.

Naturally, this all has to play out as realistically as possible, so McClane only manipulates the criminals to a point where he knows when and where they're gonna strike and he always communicates with the criminals through proxies, so that they're unaware of his involvement.

Once McClane has gotten a chance to save they day again, he gets to relish in the instant gratification of being the hero. But once the attention dies down, depression sets in. Of course people were grateful of his heroic deeds, but they're not gonna throw him a parade, every time he brings it up, and that's what he's after; he needs his next fix. He starts drinking and complaining about how he should be treated with respect, since he's the hero. This psychological breakdown is what causes him his poor standing at his job and thus why he never moves up in ranks and is sometimes without a job, at the beginning of each movie. His syndrome is also what's causing his own family to distance themselves from him and he doesn't understand how best to reach out to them in a normal healthy manner. Since he was having marriage problems with his wife, at the start of the first film, he's learned to associate "Save the life of loved one = they will love me again." This is why he often manipulates these giant heists, so that they end up putting his family members in harms way, so that he can play hero again and reconcile with them.

It truly is a sad story about a very pathetic man.

They'll probably end the series with a movie explaining all that, titled Cry Hard. Well, end it for several hours until Cry Hard 2: Cry Harder is approved.

It'll reach a whole new demographic whose pockets have yet to be drained.

 

[Product Placement]

No, they would reboot it as Die Hard: Resurrection with Shia LaBeouf, and then make sequels with titles like Revengeance, Die Again, Die Harder Than This, Dead Hard, Just Die Already, Why Won't You Die? and such.

What about Die-monds Are Forever (Hard)?

Never Say Die Hard
The Die is Cast Hard
Whom The Gods Love, Die Hard
Young Men May Die, But Old Men Must Die Hard
Do or Die Hard
Only the Good Die Hard
Call no Man Happy Until he Dies Hard


Plenty of sequel material there.

Live or let Die Hard.
You only Die Hard.
The spy who Died Hard.
Dying is forever Hard.
A view to Die Hard.
License to Die Hard.
Tomorrow never Dies Hard.
Die Hard another day.

And those are only titles that blatantly rip off Bond films.

 

[havoc33]

Die Hard 4 was bad; Die Hard 5 was one of the worst action movies I have ever seen. Obviously, I'm not going to watch another and help finance a 7th.

 

[Micalas]

Eat Shit and Die Hard? That seems to be an appropriate title.

This made me audibly laugh. Thank you so much for this. THANK YOU