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Sweet God! From Hans Gruber to Ong Bak' Is Jaa the next DIE HARD villain'!'
Ahoy, squirts! Quint here with the most damndest rumor of the day. The rumor, which started at Twitch Film says that Tony Jaa is in consideration for the villain that'll be John McClane's bane this fourth time out.
Every geek fibre of my being, every inch of my massive gut-instinct believes this to be a genius idea. Jaa is fresh, amazing and a natural star. He'd be perfect to beat the hell out of Bruce Willis... especially if the rumors about this being the last DIE HARD film for Willis are true... McClane is a badass, but Jaa's badassery would wipe the floor with little John McClane!
CLICK IT HERE TO READ WHERE THE RUMOR ORIGINATED!!!
I'm gonna keep an eye out for developement on this... What do you folks think about this rumor?
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Yeah, and doing Lethal Weapon 4 did wonders for Jet Li.
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I think they should let sleeping dogs lie. Sure, I'd like to see another DIE HARD movie, but it's already been 10 years since the last one. It's like my wanting to both see and avoid INDY 4. Oh, and first?
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I guess I never tried it before, and now I won't try it again.
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I think Die Hard 4 would be an awful idea for Willis and Jaa, just as a fourth Indiana Jones film would be for all involved. I'm sure there are tons of neat ideas for Jaa to pursue, and Bruce Willis has enough clout to get a creative team together to design a worthwhile action character if that is really what he wants.
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DIE HARD 4 would end Tony Jaa's US career before it can even begin.
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Apr 04, 2005 11:33:40 PM CDT
surely you jest about anyone being more badass than mcclane
by keysersoze
although...i havent seen ong bak, so i spose i should refrain...but come on man, someone wiping the floor with mcclane? DUDE! blasphemy!
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This is true, because we cannot count Ong Bak as his American debut. I do not know about other parts of the country, but that film's release in the northeast was about the worst I have ever seen. It opened in very few theaters (including only one urban theater), was poorly advertised, and after its first week, all but a couple of theaters had anything more than a midnight showing. By three weeks, the film was gone completely. I had the good fortune to see it in that first week, but most people lost out completely. It is a tragedy, too, because seeing Ong Bak in a theater was like seeing "Rumble in the Bronx" in a theater. I already knew who Jackie Chan was, but the audience's reaction to that film set the stage for his crossover success. I think the same thing could have happened for Jaa. He was poorly served by whoever handled the U.S. release of the film. Repaying him by offering him "Die Hard 4" is the cinematic equivilent of offering hemlock to Socrates. Thanks, but no thanks.
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It say's Justin Timberlake is in talks to play McClane's son? Wasn't Britney Spears rumored to play his daughter a while back? This sounds like crap to me. Doubt this one will be made. Let the franchise die... hard.
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Apr 04, 2005 11:56:40 PM CDT
Hollywood's liability insurance & completion bond companies won'
by frankdrebin
Compare Jackie Chan's American films to his Asian ones. ("OSHA? What's an OSHA?")
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The problem with the Die Hard's is that all these crazy scenarios keep happening to the same guy. Now McClane has accumulated enough experience that he could work for Homeland Sercurity and the Die Hard flicks could go on forever!
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Why do they have to ruin Jaa so early. Die Hard is laden with special effects, Tony Jaa works best without them.
Let him do his own thing in Thailand, leave him the hell alone Hollywood. -
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I know this film has been talked about since the last film wiped it's load. However, I'd only go see this if Hulk Hogan is the baddie and Sam Jackson returns to attack him with amusingly cliche blaxploitation dialogue.
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Maybe his son is gay and thats what drives him to drink and beat the living hell out of him.
Does Jaa speak any English? Thats the only problem I would have with it. Seeing the villians' reactions to McClane oneliners is one of the best part, something that would be totally lost on a villian who doesn't understand English. -
This would be good news, even if you don't like Brosnan, because it would also mean the return of Dench, Cleese & Salmon (and maybe even Yeoh, Berry or Madsen, which EON had thought about). They wouldn't have meshed with a younger Bond: http://www.imdb.com/news/wenn/2005-04-05/
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Apr 05, 2005 1:12:02 AM CDT
Asians are always the devious villains. Directors just call it h
by watashiwadare
after decades of improvement in getting away from racial stereotyping, in the 2000s everyone steps abruptly backwards.
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I don't mean to thread jack but if that were true that would rule. It only makes sense. Brosnan saved the franchise and every movie since his first has made more money than the last. 'Tomorrow Never Dies' made bank and it opened against Titanic for Chrissakes. Admittedly 'Die Another Day' was a little weak but it also had Halle Berry and Madonna. Everyone's allowed one bad turn. But it still made money. No one wants to see a young boy band Bond. Brosnan is the best since Connery and he's he's got another left in him. Christ, listen to me. I swear to God I'm not a plant. Just a serious Bond fan. Ok, back on topic...oh. Who cares. Willis is moving onto other things, he doesn't need another Die Hard movie. And his kid is supposed to be like 22 years old by now. Unless they set it in the future....who gives a shit. Bring Brosnan back.
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Apr 05, 2005 1:58:05 AM CDT
"the rumors about this being the last DIE HARD film for Willis"
by moviemaniac-7
Yeah right. This will only be the last if it looses money. Weren't there any plans for a Die Hard 4 in an underwater city in the mid-1990s?
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American movie= Jaa lite.
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Apr 05, 2005 3:15:57 AM CDT
This totally sucks. Tony Jaa is about to start his mediocre Holl
by quantum_ken
He's the next post-Lethal Weapon Jet Li.
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Mine was all that awesome butt-rock.
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Apr 05, 2005 3:56:05 AM CDT
I remember script rumors being spread around AICN in 2001, 02, a
by george newman
I really remember that. That was one of my first geek groan moments. That was around when I was shown this website.
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And eventually, Willis made that script anyway. It was TEARS OF THE SUN.
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I meant to say:
Is he going to talk? The Grubers were cool villains and I don't recall it being about them kicking Willis's ass, it was their henchmen. Unless of course Jaa will play a henchman in which case it's all good. But the main villain? Me no think so. -
"He's running out of time, he's running out of options, and he's running out of wisecracks!"
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There's the poster title. Subtitled: DIE ALREADY
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Is anyone else up for a McClane vs Indy movie with Paul W.S. Anderson at the helm? It would freakin rule and you know it! The plot - McClane gets sent back to the fifties.........OK, fair enough.... The fact is, we've waited so long for DH4 and 'Raiders' 4 (as Spielberg and Lucas probably call it) because they seriously don't want them to suck donkey-ass. There's still a chance Indy won't get made, if the script's still shit. Just because it has money-making potential, but they don't need the fucking money so I reckon there's still a possibility Spielberg will just walk away from it. Die Hard's been in development for a fucking age also. It was gonna be set in the jungle 3 years ago if I remember rightly. As for Brosnan as Bond, I hope he is still Bond, simply because we know how great he is as Bond (and we know how much the wannabes like Clive Owen would suckety suck). It would make sense for it to be Brosnan if they're also doing that young Bond series.
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Apr 05, 2005 11:03:53 AM CDT
Am I supposed to believe that Tony Jaa is Hans Gruber's distant
by hung-wei lo
Tony is a great fighter, but it makes no sense in getting an acrobatic, fast, young talent like him, only to have some old, slow geezer like McClane "out-wit" him in the end. It's called a gun, people. Makes for a boring movie unless they can both duke it out. Makes no sense for every other reason as well! Die Hard 4.0? Would have been a cool title in 1995, but this is 2005. How about "Die Hard: Just Die Already".
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Apr 05, 2005 11:30:55 AM CDT
Someone truncated Harry's sentence: "The rumors about this being
by salvatoregravano
"...until he needs more money" - that's the missing part.
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...Was This Trip Really Necessary? At least that's what I'd call it as the crotchety old John McClane, wracked by arthritis from all the banging around of his body he's done over the years, finds himself once again stumbling headlong into a bunch of terrorists because he was running out to pick up a tux for his daughter's lesbian wedding or something. Actually, the Homeland Security idea could work. Have John head up a crack team of anti-terror specialists a'la Mission: Unlikely and wave the old red, white and blue for the folks at home. Americans would eat that shit up with chopsticks if Jaa were cast as a North Korean cell leader. And the scary part? Someone's going to read this and think A.) I'm serious, and B.) it's a good idea. Let it go, Bruce. Just let it go.
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I blew coffee through my nose reading your post. Nasty, but damn funny.
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Apr 05, 2005 12:41:01 PM CDT
We already have a good Die Hard follow-up. It's on every Monday
by johnnytremaine
Ah well. Die Hard 4: Bruce Goes to the ATM.
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Sure, he's not huge like Orson Welles, but he plays a good "heavy". I'd love Alan Rickman to be a James Bond villain. He's perfect for it.
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can you imagine if John McClane and Jack Bauer combined to form the most incredibly coincidental, wrong place/wrong time, too old for this shit movies ever made??? that would be tha shiiiit.
honestly tho, i think the die hard franchise lost me at #3, right at the end when they cut to Montreal (or somewhere in Canada) to FINALLY kick Jeremy Irons' ass? that was fucking pathetic (it must have been comforting for McClane to know that Sam Jackson was waiting in the 'copter high above, spewing his 'i hate white people' shtick. :) -
He was the best thing about that movie, far better than either Rock or Pesci.
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Since she was a vegetable, we don't have to worry about her feelings. Der. Her parents made her life a circus, not us.
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rips out the bag guys scrotum and beats his face to hamburger! Damn that was freaking awesome!
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He hasn't done a film since Lethal Weapon 4. Seriously.
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Apr 05, 2005 3:55:44 PM CDT
Die Hard is one of the few franchises I wouldn't mind seeing goi
by tall_boy
Seriously, it'd get pretty funny by the end of it, but that's part of the appeal. How this crazy shit Keeps Happening to John McClaine.
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Cause what company would cover him for insurance... GFY
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Apr 05, 2005 4:49:15 PM CDT
I heard that Joe Pesci retired and is now concentrating on his s
by togmeister
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Sure, it would suck, but lots of shit will get blowed the hell up.
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Terrible, I know.
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...Tony Jaa kills Justin Timberlake (McClane Jnr) in the first 5 mins and Bruce (McClane Snr) goes after him for revenge.
....an on set accident actually does kill Justin Timberlake.
Tony Jaa kills both Bruce and Justin in the film so the bad guy wins for once.... c'mon it would make a nice change and Tony would destroy Bruce if it came to fisticuffs -
1. Tony Jaa as a villain. 2. Justin (blech blech) Timberlake as Willis' son. 3. The film involves internet crime. THIS SUCKS! I thought they were on the right track with Die Hard 3... I loved how they used such a rich supporting cast... I was fascinated with the entire police detachment within which John McClaine was involved... they were all such good characters and the plot was so well conceived. It was like a big crime puzzle. I don't want to see the Die Hard series dumbed down to hip hop idiots and Bruce Willis figuring out how to use the internet... keep it witty, gritty, and out in the New York streets. I agree that Lethal Weapon 4 went too far... it wasn't believable that Riggs and Murdock could survive Jet Li with simple punches... the movie lost all plausibity with that. Somebody at the studio read this!!!
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...your synopsis of Die Lethal Weapon Hard 4 had me laughing so hard that I now appear as deranged as I currently feel in this awful college computer lab.
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Any word on whether or not McTiernan will be back? It's his franchise, Die Hard 2 was terrible.
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