‘Die Hard’ Prequel Was Scuttled After Disney’s Merger With Fox
told Polygon, “Yeah, no, it’s not happening.” “But what was really interesting was we actually came up with an idea to do it,” he added. “It was a project that wasn’t Die Hard that then, eventually, shifted over to Die Hard.”“McClane” would have given Len Wiseman, tapped as director of the movie in 2015, the opportunity to work with Willis and a new actor, di Bonaventura said.There were a couple of rumored plots for the film.