Things have been fairly quiet on the Die Hard franchise front of late. The latest development happened in February, with word that Noam Murro had been recruited by 20th Century Fox to bring John McClane back to the big screen. Now, however, with Murro having won the job of making 300 spin-off Battle of Artemisia, Twitch Film reports that the next Die Hard is a movie in search of a director once more. And according to their sources, The Omen**/Max Payne man John Moore has been offered the gig.
Moore has apparently been told that the chance to make McClane’s life tough all over again is his to take or turn down, but there’s been no official confirmation of that so this remains very much in the rumour-sphere for now.
But Twitch also mentions that the fifth instalment will find the grouchy hero heading to Russia to tangle with local forces alongside his son. Skip Woods was the writer most recently credited with bashing out a draft, but who knows how many cooks have been brought in to work on that broth? And does a Russian setting for this most blue-collar of American heroes feel weird to anyone else?
For now, don't plan your holidays around it, but there’s a chance we could soon hear more about what John McClane might be up to in future. Assuming Bruce Willis signs off on it all…