BIG NEWS! DIE HARD 4! Well, yeah, it’s not really any closer to getting made.
By Burbanked on May 4, 2006 in Development Heck, Movies | 801 views |
If we’re to consider ourselves cinema junkies, then certainly sequels should be thought of as the crack-like monkey on our backs. We want, need, crave sequels, but in our dark heart of hearts, we know that - in most cases - they’re not very good for us.
So what are we to think when we see sequel updates like this one in which producer Arnold Rifkin reveals that the latest script for Die Hard 4 is currently under review? This sequel’s been kicking around longer than Al Powell’s been scarfing down Twinkies, so we always hear this kind of thing with more than our usual amount of skepticism.
At least Bruce Willis is keeping a sense of humor about the long-delayed franchise; in this Chicago Sun-Times report, he says:
“We’re actually not doing ‘Die Hard 4.’ We’re going right to ‘Die Hard 9.’ Then we’ll go back and do 5-8 when we get a chance. I also want to do a prequel with John McClane as a teenager.”
We fervently, desperately hope that he’s kidding, but even if he isn’t we’ll probably line up for whatever the next installment might be. Unless, of course, they hand the creative reins over to Ratner - you know, the All-Powerful Director Who Single-Handedly Decides the Fates of Major Franchises?
My blog-love affair with cartoonist Doug Savage’s terrific daily Savage Chickens (
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because clearly Cage has decided to become action/thriller cinema’s first Polish great-grandma. (
Well, that’s too bad. Back a year or so ago when I heard that they’d be making a movie out of Judi and Ron Barrett’s terrific kids’ book Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, I hoped maybe it’d be made live-action. Handled well, the idea of seeing an actual town where it rained hotdogs and baked beans in an open-roof restaurant, as well as the bit where sanitation trucks clean up all the leftover rain/snow/food and feed it to the pets would be, I thought, a bundle of CG-imbued cinema fun. 
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