‘Die Hard 5’ Director Short List Includes Joe Cornish, Justin Lin And Nicolas Winding Refn
By Germain Lussier/Aug. 1, 2011 1:30 pm EST
Deadline first 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 sixth Fast and Furious film (which already has a release date), the Highlander remake as well as the new Terminator film just to mention a few. Winding Refn seems pretty confident that he and Ryan Gosling will go on to Only God Forgives next, plus they both have the Logan’s Run remake somewhere down the road. As a fan of both Lin and Winding Refn’s latest movies, Fast Five and Drive (hey that rhymes!), I’d love to see either take a crack at a Die Hard movie. Especially Winding Refn because he’s certainly fight for a more grounded sense of action, something Live Free or Die Hard sorely 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 debut Attack the Block is 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.
What do you think about all this?
