Kick-Ass creator pitches in on ‘that’ Die Hard 6 pitch

Earlier this week, we posted an article about a film fan/ indie movie producer’s pretty decent pitch for a Die Hard 6. Eric D. Wilkinson took at a quite expensive full-page-ad in The Hollywood Reporter to share his ideas for a sixth Die Hard with director Len Wiseman and star Bruce Willis. There’s been no official response as yet, but Kick-Ass creator, and Fox’s Chief Creative Consultant for their Marvel properties, Mark Millar, picked up on our article and chimed in on his thoughts of getting John McClane to the ‘Die Hard scenario’ of his prison incarceration a little quicker.

Here’s what Millar posted on his website.

To get McClane in this high-security prison much faster and much more smoothly how about he’s arrested as he comes off a Christmas flight and he has no idea what the Hell he’s being charged with? He’s been busted under a Homeland Security provision, the last twenty five years of his life having him involved or certainly at the centre of…

The attack on the Nakatomi building
The terrorist incident at Dulles airport
The bomb-threat to New York City
Die Hard 4’s cyber-terror threat
And, more recently, whatever actually happened in Die-Hard 5.

Now THAT is a Die Hard movie. What’s interesting is Millar’s closing comments.

“I think the genius of Die-Hard is staying simple and getting him into that situation as quickly as possible. It’s a third act spread over THREE acts. If this is any help to anyone they are more than welcome. [Producer] Lorenzo’s [di Bonaventura] a pal of mine and producing Jupiter’s Legacy so I’m going to shoot this over to him too as I’d love to see that guy get this gig. This is a movie I just want to see.”

There’s more to read over on Millar’s blog, so go check it out, and click it here for more on that original pitch from Wilkinson in the trade papers earlier on this week.

I’m really excited about a sixth Die Hard movie, despite what we were presented with in the fifth. Whatever happens, I really hope they do this one right. There are a lot of great ideas out there, particularly this one, so Wiseman, Willis and co. are really up against it to deliver the goods. Let’s hope they do.

Die Hard: Year One will release sometime in the future; we’re presuming  2017.