‘Die Hard 5’ Director Short List Includes Joe Cornish, Justin Lin And Nicolas Winding Refn
The potentialDie Hard 5excitement level is going up and down like an express elevator from Hell.For months we’d just assumedthatNoam Murrowas going to direct the inevitable next chapter in theBruce Willisaction saga, butwhen he signed for300: Battle of Artemisia, it looked like the job was going toJohn Moore. Now,mere hours after that news broke, it turns out that’s only a half truth. Moore, who directedMax Payne, The Omen, Flight of the PhoenixandBehind Enemy Linesis still in the mix, but he’s reportedly on a short list with the, no offense to Moore, much more exciting directors includingJoe Cornish, Justin LinandNicolas Winding Refn. Read more after the jump.
Deadlinefirst reported that Moore doesn’t officially have the job and that Cornish, Lin and Winding Refn will all join him in having meetings soon to discuss the project.
Both Lin and Winding Refn have a slew of projects already on their plates. For Lin, there’s a sixthFast and Furiousfilm (which already has a release date), theHighlanderremake as well as the newTerminatorfilm just to mention a few. Winding Refn seems pretty confident that he and Ryan Gosling will go on toOnly God Forgivesnext, plus they both have theLogan’s Runremake somewhere down the road. As a fan of both Lin and Winding Refn’s latest movies,Fast Five and Drive(hey that rhymes!), I’dloveto see either take a crack at aDie Hardmovie. Especially Winding Refn because he’s certainly fight for a more grounded sense of action, somethingLive Free or Die Hardsorely lacked.
But, if I were a betting man, because of their packed schedules, I’d probably put these two as likely “passes.” That leaves Cornish, whose directorial debutAttack the Blockis obviously something we here at /Film are massive fans of and Moore, whose films “don’t come even close to a Fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes, for what that’s worth,” according to Angie.
As far as we know, Cornish has yet to pick his follow-up film so he’s surely a fan favorite.Die Hard 5would be a mighty step up after a film that took place largely in one location but, with the right team and budget, that shouldn’t be a problem. However, one would have to guess that he’s a bit too much of a wild card and that, when all is said and done, Fox will go with the dependable choice of Moore.
What do you think about all this?
