Caffeinated Clint
Cast in the new Bruce Willis blockbuster
I was always going to be there, clammy-handed, anyway, but this latest bit of casting news for “Live Free or Die Hard” has me a little more jazzed to see the thing. Almost – but not quite – Gene Kelly Jazzed.
OK, so it’s not Alan Rickman doing a flashback scene, Hart Bochman doesn’t come back as a twin, Bonnie Bedelia’s not being rewarded with a cameo (and ‘cmon, why the fuck not?!; we haven’t seen Holly since “Die Hard 2”!) but Kevin Smith, Silent Bob himself, doing a couple of days’ work on the new Bruno blockbuster? Gold. Odd. But still gold.
Smith – who also has an acting role in the forthcoming comedy “Catch and Release”, and recently shot the pilot for the new U.S sitcom “Manchild”; in fact it seems he’s becoming more and more interested in acting, than directing – is staying mum on who he is playing in the new “Die Hard”, but my money is on ‘rude hot dog vendor’ or ‘comic-book store geek who screams!’
Needless to say, Smith had wood on set. He tells News Askew that the first “Die Hard” film was crucial in his development.
“My summer of ’88 was wiled away watching John McClane make fists with his toes, pull glass out of those same feet, curse like a sailor while he desperately kicked the ass of a thug twice his size, and end up stumbling half-dead out of a building by flick’s end – one of the first action movie heroes to actually appear damaged by the adventure he’d just undertaken. What started out as a revenge-date I went on with Shannon Furey (in which I’d hoped to make my ex-girlfriend Kim Loughran jealous enough to reunite with me), ended with my longtime interest in pussy taking a backseat to my newfound interest in the events of Christmas Eve at Nakatomi Plaza. With that viewing, the term “Die Hard” went from being the brand of a car battery Sears made to shorthand for every action movie of the next ten years that aped its formula: “Die Hard” in a bus, “Die Hard” on a train, etc.”
Jason Mewes, no doubt, doesn’t wanna be “his friend no more”.
