Die Hard (film series) to overwhelmingly negative reviews and grossed $304.7 million worldwide. When the production was formally announced for the fifth film in the series, Bruce Willis expressed his desire to retire the John McClane character in a sixth and final film. In October 2015, returning director Len Wiseman, who previously directed "Live Free or Die Hard", shared the film's working title as "" on his Twitter feed. This, after stating that upon completion of "Die Hard 4.0", he and Willis discussed a type of prequel/sequel for the McClane character. Combined with the social media account, this drove speculation of some sort of
John A. Willis John A. Willis John Alvin Willis (October 16, 1916 – June 25, 2010) was an American theatre and film book editor, theatre awards producer, actor, and educator. He is best known for editing the long-running annual publications "Theatre World" and "Screen World", and for producing the annual Theatre World Awards for Broadway and Off-Broadway debuts for over forty years, from the early 1960s to the early 2000s. Mr. Willis was originally from Morristown, Tennessee. He earned an undergraduate degree in English from Milligan College, and did graduate work at Harvard University, Indiana University, and the University of Tennessee. During World