Caffeinated Clint
Down Under, anyway.
They say – due to both McDonalds and the fact that our leaders are closer than cooks – Australia is basically in bed with America. Not true on all accounts, it seems.
Yet another big-time U.S movie is about to renamed for Down Under audiences. “Live Free or Die Hard” will now be . . . “Throw another McClane on the barbie”.
I kid, I kid…
It’s actually going to release here as “Die Hard 4.0”, FOX has confirmed.
Yep, the films original title. Seems Twentieth Century Fox will only be releasing – from the sounds – the film under the title “Live Free or Die Hard” in the states … since they’re the ones that fully understand the play-on-words-name there.
I actually quite liked “Live Free or Die Hard” . . . but I guess I understand why its being released under ‘4.0’ in Australia – its for the same reason they retitled “XXX 2 : State of the Union” to “XXX 2 : the Next Level” here : We just ‘won’t’ get it. Or so they think.
A title change for Australia is nothing new … I can’t tell you how many movies there are in my DVD Tower that I own two copies of… only each copy has a different title.
For example : “Shoot to Kill” was renamed “Deadly Pursuit” (which I actually prefer) here; “Point of No Return” (which I own on DVD; Region 1) was retitled “The Assassin” here (which I don’t own); the Ed O’Neill comedy “Dutch” was renamed “Driving Me Crazy” here; Jennifer Garner starrer “13 Going on 30” (which I picked up at 20/20 video in Los Angeles on DVD fairly cheaply) was released as “Suddenly 30” here; The Paul Walker thriller “Joyride” was renamed “Roadkill” here; and more recently, FOX decided to retitle “Garfield : A Tale of Two Kitties” to simply, “Garfield 2” for down under audiences. It made a big difference. Heh.
Anyway, “Die Hard 4.0”, that’s what McClane’s latest jaunt’s called down under. Like it or Lump it.
