New Director for DIE HARD 5

John Moore

Mind you, they are still in final negotiations, but it seems that 20th Century Fox and Bruce Willis have finally decided who they want directing the new "Die Hard" sequel. The lucky director is John Moore, who is (in)famous for such films as "Max Payne", featuring a very upset Mark Wahlberg, "Flight of the Pheonix", featuring a cool plane crash and a creepy Giovanni Ribisi and "Behind Enemy Lines" featuring what I like to call a "popcorn war". To Moore's credit, the previously mentioned films are all very well executed, albeit devoid of any kind of intellectual appeal. Let's face it, if you're looking for an exciting brainless thrill-ride, John Moore is the ideal director. He's certainly demonstrated his ability to stage cool action scenes, which is probably what attracted Fox's attention in the first place. Rumors have it that Bruce Willis needed a little more convincing before he agreed with the studio's choice.

Still, I think that Fox and Willis have not learned anything from the underwhelming "Live Free or Die Hard", which is an okay action flick, but undeserving of the "Die Hard" title. John McClane, once a cool action icon has become nothing more than a computer-generated hero for the "Transformers" generation. Anyway, enough with the fanboy rants. The fifth installment in the franchise is set to take place in Russia and will be written by Skip Woods ("The A-Team", "X-Men Origins: Wolverine", "Swordfish").

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