Writer Mark Bomback talks about working on the new Die Hard movie ‘Live Free or Die Harder’
By Behind The Scenes TV on Jun 16, 2007 in Film Business, Filmmaking, Hollywood, Interview, New Movies
Are you super-heroed out? Are you suffering from spandex fatigue? Have you seen one too many computer-generated fireball infernos filling up your cinema screen? If so, the makers of the $100 million Die Hard 4, the latest episode in the 19-year-old hard-hitting action franchise, think they have the answer.
Betting on a certain ennui among a cine-ma-going public tired of synthetic comic-book heroes such as Spider-Man, the X-Men and the Fantastic Four, the marketing hounds at 20th Century Fox have come up with a genius promotional tagline for their punchy new Die Hard movie: “No mask. No cape. No problem.” That tagline kind of sums up the allure of the Die Hard movies,” explains the film’s 36-year-old screenwriter, Mark Bomback. “There’s something about the everyman quality of the hero John McClane (played by Bruce Willis) that people respond to. He’s just a guy, a normal cop, who wants to have this one moment of peace with his family, but it keeps on getting disrupted.”
(Source: Times Online)
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