A Good Day To Die Hard Will Cut Down On The Humor

A big part of what makes John McClane such a great character is the
fact that he's always in the wrong place at the wrong time and he's
perpetually upset about it. The early films have some of the best action
movie one-liners of all time, and even the character's most famous line
- "Yippee-Kay Yay, Mother fucker!" - was originally said as a quip in
response to being a "cowboy." Sadly, it sounds like none of that humor
will be present in the fifth Die Hard movie, A Good Day To Die Hard.



Though the film is still in production, director Jon Moore recently took some time to speak with Empire
about the new film.When asked if the film would have any glib lines or
be more of a light-hearted romp, the filmmaker responded that this just
isn't the era for that kind of movie. "I don’t know whether it’s
post-financial crash or whatever, but I don’t think people are in the
mood for that bollocks anymore," Moore said. "People are well savvy to
the cynical reheating of any product, any franchise. Any shit won’t do.
The bar’s a bit higher." He did ease off the idea after, saying that
there are a "couple of great gags and a couple of great McClanisms," but
reinforced the statement by saying, "It’s not like he this idiot,
bumbling around Moscow making ‘America won the Cold War’ jokes. It’s not
Carry On Die Hard, I can assure you…"



Moore also discussed the scale and scope of the movie, which he says will follow the pattern of each Die Hard
film being bigger than the last. They are shooting in both New York and
Moscow, giving an international flavor to the project and apparently
there's one car chase that will take them 78 days to shoot.



While I agree that McClane as a character shouldn't be treated like an
idiot, treating him like a superhero does work either. The best elements
of the character come out in Die Hard and Die Hard With A Vengeance
when he is played as a unfortunate mess who regularly runs into
dangerous and pain-in-the-ass problems. And that's the John McClane I
want to see in A Good Day To Die Hard - no other.