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
Bruce Willis titular characters to kill his wife, Dallas (voiced by Moore). He then played the lead roles in "12 Monkeys" (1995) and "The Fifth Element" (1997). However, by the end of the 1990s his career had fallen into another slump with critically panned films like "The Jackal", "Mercury Rising", and "Breakfast of Champions", saved only by the success of the Michael Bay-directed "Armageddon" which was the highest-grossing film of 1998 worldwide. The same year his voice and likeness were featured in the PlayStation video game "Apocalypse". In 1999, Willis then played the starring role in M. Night Shyamalan's film, "The Sixth