It seems the world just can’t get enough of John McLane, as while it took years to get the fourth film into cinemas, it became a massive hit and now Bruce Willis suggests there’s interest in bringing the character back for another outing and that it may shoot next year.
At a junket for Cop Out in New York, Willis told MTV that “I think we’re going to do a Die Hard 5 next year.” Although the plans sound slightly vague at the moment, Willis added “The John McClane that exists is only in film and in people’s minds. And it continues to grow, that mythology continues to grow… I take a certain amount of pride in being part of that [mythology], and the fact that I still get to do it,”
“But I like so much more making fun of it, taking the piss out of it and not making it a big deal. Not making the fact that I’ve acted in a lot of movies a big deal. It’s all illusion and it’s all bulls–t and it’s a great job for me to have, but everything else you can set on fire. Making people laugh is the real deal.”
As for the plot of Die Hard 5, Willis seems to have no idea, other than that he’d like to take the character around the world.
It also seems that plans for Unbreakable 2 are still in the works, with Willis saying that “I talked to [Shyamalan] over the holidays, and he is still thinking about doing the fight movie between me and Sam [L. Jackson] that we were going to do… As long as Sam can make it, I’m up for it.”
The ‘fight movie’ is the second part of an originally planned trilogy, which Shyamalan abandoned after getting upset of criticism of the first film, but it seems he’s got over that and is now thinking of returning to the world of David Dunn.