Seems at one point that 24 was to cross-franchise into Die Hard 5...

According to AICN, the newly announced (but not necessarily set-in-concrete) title of the next Die Hard entry in the Bruce Willis franchise emerged from an intention to cross over Jack Bauer's world of 24 into the Die Hard universe. Hence the new title: Die Hard 24/7.

Only thing is it's not the seventh film, not a reference to a date and the cross-over isn't happening apparently because Kiefer Sutherland wants to develop his own 24 film franchise. And yet, if they leave the title like that, and this 'origin story' ever gets confirmed, isn't John McClane's next instalment going to kind of be haunted by the association?

It's a rotten title, anyway. At least Die Hard 4.0 had some computer-based logic in the dotted version number somewhere in the plot.

The site's being enigmatic about the source of this info, described as an 'established creative talent within the entertainment industry'.

Much as gathering together a cluster of action stars is a promising concept (as with The Expendables), and much as a well made buddy-action movie crossover could have had some fun with the friction between the two characters, as happened with Sam Jackson in Die Hard With A Vengeance, the energies of Bauer and McClane are very different. One or the other would have had to go 'darker' or 'lighter'. Yippee-kay-no.

AICN theorise that this is an old title that will give way, please God, to something better.

AICN

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