Die Hard 5 Gets a Title and Release Date

Posted by on October 13th, 2011   Filed under: Action
Source: /Film

Back in August we finally received confirmation that John Moore (Max Payne) would direct the fifth Die Hard film. While that news didn’t generate a lot of excitement in and of itself, the fact that the movie was actually moving forward definitely gave action movie fans something to look forward to. Now this week Fox has revealed the official title for the film, and if you thought Live Free or Die Hard sounded goofy… well, just wait ’til you get a load of this. Tom Rothman, CEO of Fox Filmed Entertainment, appeared on The Jim Rome Show yesterday to make the announcement that the next Die Hard movie will be called A Good Day to Die Hard and it will hit theatres on Valentine’s Day in 2013… sounds like the perfect date movie!

According to /Film, Rothman also confirmed rumours about the movie being set in Russia and involving McClane’s son, John McClane Jr. (not Justin Long). McClane Sr. travels to Moscow to “sweet talk some cops into letting his apparently-wayward son out of jail for something he did, but when he gets there, things surrounding his son’s arrest are not as they appear and world-threatening terrorist hijinks ensue.” They still have not decided if it will be rated R or PG-13, but I’d put money on the latter.

It’s still too early to tell if this will be a worthwhile Die Hard sequel, but so far I’m not really feeling it. I’m not a fan of the title and the decision to release on Valentine’s Day definitely seems odd, but I suppose it’s ultimately irrelevant. The big question is who will play John McClane Jr.? For some reason I’m already imagining Taylor Lautner in the role, but truthfully I don’t know that there is anyone out there that could actually make this seem cool. What do you think about the new title and overall direction of Die Hard 5?



  • dirk d

    i’d like to see the son played by haley joel osment

  • It definitely sounds like a story that won’t be centralized to one area, which is what they need to do. Go back to the “Die Hard on a” a formula, like Cheel was saying. And for the love of god, please let this be Rated R. It’s bad enough that we’re getting a Die Hard movie from the guy who directed Max Payne. But Jesus christ, please don’t give us another PG-13 Die Hard!

  • Kasper

    Haha, I love the title!

  • csidle

    The title is ridiculously awesome. It’s as if taken straight out of a GTA 4 radio advert. I really, really dig it.

  • indianamcclain

    I was really hoping that they wouldn’t make another Die Hard. Because despite what people say I loved the fourth one and I would’ve loved to see the series go out on that film. Hopefully this movie wil prove me wrong.

  • Derek McFarland

    I’m still pretty pissed about the director they’re using for the film; but of course I’m gonna see it. I also have to admit that the title for this film sounds better to me than Live Free or Die Hard. But as most would agree…. This fuckin movie better have a “HARD” R rating, like the first 3 films; and when I say HARD R…. that excludes CGI blood. We wanna see the good shit.

  • Make it a hard R and I’ll consider it. Otherwise, this will just be another wuss sequel like the previous one.

    I mean.. Russia.. really?

    Okay, if they can shoehorn a good Hearts on Fire song and Willis speech about US/Russia relations at the end….maybe.

    I’d almost be more excited if they put John McClane in space.

  • Aaron

    “I’d almost be more excited if they put John McClane in space.”

    Ha, they’ve got to save something for the sixth movie.