DIE HARD 6 Will Be a Prequel and Sequel, Len Wiseman to Direct

20th Century Fox is moving forward with Die Hard 6, and they have some very interesting plans on how they want to approach it. Producer Lorenzo Di Bonaventura is working on developing the project with director Len Wiseman, who will most likely end up directing it. Wiseman helmed 2007’s Live Free or Die Hard, which wasn't the best film in the franchise, but still managed to entertain. 

The news comes from Deadline, which also offers up some details on the plot of the film. As of right now, the working title of the sequel is Die Hard: Year One, and it will give us an origin story of John McClane, which kind of weird because I always saw Die Hard as John McClane's origin story. 

The film will be set in 1979, when McLane was fighting crime as a New York City cop. It will show how he "became a die hard kind of guy." Bruce Willis will reprise his role in the film but in the later part of the story which will take place in the present. That's how the movie will be both a prequel and sequel.

This wouldn't be the first time McClane’s early years have been the subject of a story. From 2009 to 2010, Boom! Studios published a comic book also called Die Hard: Year One. The story was set in New York during the 1976 bicentennial. Of course he had to take on a group of violent terrorists. That comic was followed up by another one that was set during the 1977 New York blackout. The story that Wiseman and Di Bonaventura are developing, though, will be an original story. 

If this does turn out to be the direction that the studio plans on taking with the film, I think it would be cool if Joseph Gordon-Levitt came in to play a younger version of Willis like he did in Looper. The guy completely nailed Willis and his mannerisms. 

The last time we saw Willis as McClane was in 2013's A Good Day to Die Hard, which sucked ass. Hopefully this next sequel will turn out a lot better. What are your thoughts on the direction they are looking to take this new sequel?

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