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Podcast: Film Stories with Simon Brew
Episode: The story of the unmade Die Hard 6, plus an update
Description: After the, cough, 'underwhelming' A Good Day To Die Hard in 2013, the assumption was that the Die Hard saga had run aground. But for a while, that wasn't the case, and by 2015, there was a plan hatched for one final movie in the series.
Bruce Willis was set to return as John McClane, Len Wiseman - after Die Hard 4.0 - was coming back to direct. And this time, we were going to be told the origin story of John McClane too.
The film was active for nearly half a decade. And this is the story...