cancelled!


"Disney is also axing the majority of the existing Fox film development slate and refocusing output, after the studio posted a $170 million operating loss in Disney’s fiscal third quarter.

"While many industry insiders have speculated about the long-term survival of Fox as a standalone content engine — as Marvel, Lucasfilm and Pixar exist under Disney and its top-earning film and animation shops — Iger said he’s assigned his top film lieutenants Alan Horn and Alan Bergman to apply the same “discipline and creative standards” to the division now run by Emma Watts. This means tossing the majority of projects in development, Iger said, taking the label “in a new direction, with an all new development slate that will focus on a select group of properties.”

"James Cameron’s sequels to “Avatar” will proceed, as well as a continuation of the “Planet of the Apes” series (no new film in that series has been announced since the release of 2017’s “War for the Planet of the Apes”). Iger also said indie label Fox Searchlight will continue on its current trajectory and also make movies for Disney Plus. Overall, Fox’s film divisions will pare back the total number of releases, he said.


https://variety.com/2019/film/news/disney-fox-xmen-marvel-studio-losses-1203294296/


no mention of Die Hard or Alien in Disneys plans..

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Yeah it's officially canceled.

https://www.polygon.com/22595827/die-hard-6-movie-mcclane-prequel-disney

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wow so it really is dead. may as well just do another sequel (maybe Bruce can pull some strings to get it made on the cheap STDVD lol)

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Heres why
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10669119/Bruce-Willis-announces-diagnosed-brain-condition-step-away-acting.html

It didnt really make sense for it to be cancelled as altho DH5 was a bad film critically and domestic not too good (70m) it still made 300m ww (to DH4s 385m ww/135m domestic. but was notoriouly PG13), there were rumours of a final DH for years, then it was announced Len Wiseman would be directing a sequel/prequel like maybe a Godfather II thing of Bruce's McClanes scenes interspersed with 70s "Year One" McClane. abit like Looper (to accommodate Bruce's condition??) Then it was cancelled altogether

I wonder if they will still go a head with it as a full prequel? (I guess McClane Snr could cameo via CG/deepfake)

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https://variety.com/2022/film/news/bruce-willis-final-movies-retires-aphasia-1235221244/

With the news of his retirement, fans hopes for Willis to reprise some of his most iconic roles have been dashed. For example, there’d once been rumors that Willis could saddle up as action cowboy police detective John McClane for a sixth “Die Hard” movie, but producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura revealed in a 2021 Polygon interview that a theoretical prequel/sequel was nixed after the Disney-Fox merger. Which means we’ll just have to watch Willis’ 2020 Die Hard car battery ads on repeat…

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