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Recast This: John McClane for a reboot
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I'd go half in the past, half new. Old John McClane is refilling some oxygen tanks for his best friend who is dying of lung cancer. A ride around town from the warehouse depot and supplier, to strip mall clinic to medical center highrise. He has to team up with a young nurse who hero protags the shit out of things when a hospital wing is shut down by some y'all qaeda terrorists/cops who take some doctors and staff hostage over a national viral outbreak and some found service cam footage that would set the city on fire. Tone would be sarcastic as a heart attack. Death lurks just around the corner, die hard indeed. An Alex Jones type tiktoks the whole ordeal from the lobby and gets people killed without missing a beat, the big villain is revealed to be a desk cop who kidnaps and tries to disappear his daughter's boyfriend, an EMT, because racist paranoia and peer pressure and everything goes to shit because of common decency and misunderstanding and systems pushed past their limits.
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That would be one hell of a ballsy pick, and I would probably love it.
man, i don't think i've seen an actor with a career like fiennes has been undersold like that before.
"love interest in maid in manhattan," lol
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Patrick Steward is 6 years older than Rickman. Holy shit, we lost Rickman way too soon :(
I think you get like a Tom Hiddleston type for Gruber, someone who's a stage actor for sure
For McClane it could be pretty much any actor that's not a superhero. Although, Paul Rudd would work but he's a bit too old to play 30s. But someone with his background - romantic comedies and comedies
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Someone suggested Steven Yuen and I think he could do it. His character in Sorry To Bother You fits that description and he kills it in that movie.
Doesn't fit for me, it's a completely different vibe imo.
Of course, they could just go with something else... but 9/10 when they do that it ends up being pretty bad.
Considering Samberg and his character's love for the movie, just forget doing a shot-for-shot remake, and make it Diest Hardest with the Brooklyn 99 cast.
Stephanie Beatriz as McClane
Melissa Fumero as Holly
Andre Braugher as Hans Gruber
Joe Lo Truglio as Al
Samberg as Ellis
Joel Mc Kinnon & Dirk Blocker as the FBI Agents
It writes itself.
Bob Odenkirk. He has that "everyman" look, isn't really in shape, and has that comedic/dramatic range. He's not in his 30's though.
Cast Harrison Ford and digitally de-age him to 32 year-old Harrison Ford
It's hard to imagine a Die Hard made today would resemble Die Hard. It'd be that sort of self aware jokey reboot, something too macho, or too clean. So much of it was of its era. Also, Holly would end up being a nurse or md. For some reason the wife character is almost always a nurse these days. And Hans Gruber would be an eco terrorist.
That said, Sterling K Brown.
That said, Sterling K Brown.
the problem is that Die Hard is not a fantastic movie because of Bruce Willis but because of Hans Gruber, Alan Rickman playing against Bruce Willis and I think that was lightning in a bottle you'll not recapture again similar to most Arnold Schwarzenegger roles or Godfather or "pick any iconic duo like Mulder/Scully".
So any Die Hard movie, just like all the sequels, isn't going to reach the heights of the first one and therefore will not do well and be considered a flop and hurt the career of whoever stars in it.
So any Die Hard movie, just like all the sequels, isn't going to reach the heights of the first one and therefore will not do well and be considered a flop and hurt the career of whoever stars in it.
This works for me.
Chris Pratt
As Burt Macklin
Also like Glenn from The Walking Dead suggestion. Another could probably be Robert Pattinson. Not that any option could be as good as Bruce Willis was. Especially not if try to copy him exactly
Might not be possible unless there's some unknown I'm not thinking of who can infuse the role with the same wrong-place-wrong-guy charisma that Willis did. His portrayal of McClane was the primary draw of the series for me and I'm sure many, many others. Someone said Jake Johnson before, I kinda liked that idea. He could infuse enough humor into the role without making it a comedy. It would be a stretch to see him as an action lead, though.
58 is middle age now? And here I am just hit 40 and thought I was middle aged. You've just made my day.