Die Hard 6

Jai Courtney will play the young Bruce Willis.

Young McClaine will be played by Rumer Willis.

I saw this comment on another website.

'It's almost as if they don't want us to watch the movie.'

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www.avclub.com/article/somebody-took-out-full-page-ad-hollywood-reporter--228227


An open letter to:

Bruce Willis, Lorenzo di Bonaventura, Len Wiseman

and the makers of

DIE HARD

My name is Eric D. Wilkinson. I am a producer and writer of independent movies. I withdrew money I really don’t have from my savings account to reach out to you today to tell you that i love the movie Die Hard. Let me say that again… I LOVE DIE HARD.

It’s my favorite movie of all time. I’ve been there on opening day for every one of the sequels. Like a crazy addict. I keep coming back because I so desperately want to experience that ”first high” I got as a teenager back in 1988. But while I like the sequels, each one has left me somewhat unsatisfied. I know that I speak for a number of other fans when I say that the problem with them is that they’re missing the one key ingredient which made the original so great: an ordinary man in extraordinary circumstances.

The original Die Hard trailer boasts, ”He’s an easy guy to like, but a hard man to kill.” But by the time you get through the fifth movie, he’s become completely impossible to kill. Somewhere along the way, John McClane became the man he told Hans Gruber he wasn’t. John Rambo, an unstoppable killing machine. We love McClane precisely because he’s a regular guy. He’s one of us. A fly in the ointment. A pain in the ass. He’s flawed. He gets hurt. He’s ordinary and that’s okay.

So now you’re developing Die Hard: Year One that would include an origin story set in 1979. While I understand the desire to inevitably reboot the franchise, many fans and I are concerned: why tell ”origin story” when the original Die Hard is an origin story? Admittedly, this concept did work for The Godfather: Part II (yes, I just compared Die Hard to The Godfather) so if you have to do it this way I’m willing to go along for the ride, but I want the old John McClane back. No surfing on trucks. No jumping off the wings of harrier jets. No car chases with supersize sport utility vehicles driving ON TOP of traffic. Ordinary man. Extraordinary circumstances.

My writing & producing partner Richard Schenkman and I would like to offer you a solution that incorporates both a young John McClane and brings the present day story back to reality… back to basics… and gives John McClane the proper sendoff that both he and the fans deserve. Like The Godfather: Part II, our Die Hard: Year One story cuts back and forth from past to present telling two stories, with a jaw dropping twist at the end that brings the series full circle, staying true to the character and the original, perfect film, whilee still allowing you to continue a franchise that will clearly never Die Hard.

May I present to you Eric Wilkinson and Richard Schenkman’s pitch for ”Die Hard: Year One”

Former hero cop John McClane, 60 years old and beat to shit, is a convicted felon, being carted off to a Federal prison. Why?

Flashback to 1979, where 24-year-old New York City Patrol Officer John McClane is part of a team of cops assigned to investigate the murder of 6-year-old Ethan Peller, working under the direction of an up-and-coming Detective Stan Winshaw. Strong police work leads McClane to suspect possible sex trafficker Clarence Sutton, who mysteriously vanishes moments before McClane can make the arrest. The rule-breaking McClane and his superior Winshaw butt heads. The trail goes cold and the case is never solved. When McClane makes unprovable accusations about Winshaw he is transferred to the city’s bleakest division.

34 years later, Detective John McClane takes a personal leave and heads to Moscow to help his estranged son, who is being tried in a Russian court. While McClane is out of the country, the remains of Clarence Sutton are discovered, not only with DNA evidence linking Sutton to the murder of Ethan Peller, but additional evidence that ties John McClane to Sutton’s killing.

Upon McClane’s return from Russia, he is arrested, tried and convicted for the murder of Clarence Sutton. He is given a 30 year prison sentence in ADX Florence, an ultra-maximum-security, or ”supermax” prison which houses some of the most dangerous criminals in the country, including Omar Al-Maqdisi and Abdul bin Saeed, masterminds of the two worst terrorist attacks on American soil.

Following the Russian adventure, John had successfully reunited his family and reconnected with his wife Holly. Now, while he serves his sentence, Holly has been spending all of her time and effort on his appeal - especially once new evidence surfaces which may not only exonerate McClane, but also implicate Stan Winshaw (now a decorated police Captain) who may have framed John for the murder of the suspect they were chasing nearly forty years ago. However the day Holly goes to the prison to deliver this news personally to John, a riot breaks out, and before she can safely leave, the prison is put on lockdown.

But this is no ordinary prison riot.

By nightfall, inmates control the facility, holding Holly McClane and many other hostages. We soon learn that the riot itself was a distracting subterfuge… part of a plan to break both Al-Maqdisi and bin Saeed out of prison so they can help complete a horrific new terrorist attack in New York City.

However the one thing the terrorists didn’t count on was the one man who is always in the wrong place at the wrong time… And when it comes to John McClane, old habits die hard.

Now I know what you guys are thinking… ”Do you think you really have a chance, Mr. Cowboy?” Contact me… I’ll give you my answer. Happy trails.

Phone: 609-501-4022 - Email: dhyo@comcast.net

It'll be inspiring if he gets the job thanks to this... but it'll also open the door for every idiot to pitch his or her idea in a newspaper.

I got the shovel and Google maps directions to Harold Ramis' grave.

It takes place in 1979, so, yeah.

Ah, yes! I actually know Bruce Willis and he's used to play Die Hard for a long time. He is very good cop. He like to shoots the terrorist. 

I don't know what I'd rather see, a Die Hard prequel or the 8th Terminator reboot.

Why choose when we can make both as A CROSSOVER!

Sell the idea, Doomsy. Become a rich man. You're welcome.

'On his 70th birthday John McClane just wants a little peace and quiet.  Suddenly his door flies open and he stands face to face with an old, wrinkled John McClane (Looper).  He tells him that a machine was sent back through time to kill John in 1988 (Terminator) and that 70 year old John has to go back and stop him.  John asks Old John who sent the machine and he learns it was Hans Gruber's great-great-grandson.  John travels back to warn Young John and they both refuse to enter Nakatomi Plaza which results in all the hostages dying and Hans getting away thereby creating an alternate timeline.  Young John goes on vacation, finally free from Holly and her feminist bitch ways.  While in the Caribbean though he stumbles across Holly who apparently survived.  In all the ruckus at Nakatomi she found a vial of liquid in a dead hostage's purse.  She decides to drink it and becomes immortal (Death Becomes Her).  While John is wrapping his head around the insanity of an undead, immortal Holly he received a visit from an 8 year old John McClane (Disney's The Kid) who explains that he has to learn to not be such a grump all the time.  In the meantime, an asteroid is hurtling toward Earth  (Armageddon) and John is the only man who can drill to the center to stop it from happening.'