![]() Years later, the WW3.com screenplay was dusted off and reworked as a Die Hard sequel by Mark Bomback. But then 9/11 happened, and the entire project was quietly set aside. ![]() That script was hot property in the late ’90s – Varietyeven reported that WW3.com was scheduled as a major summer film for 1999. Like all the Die Hardsequels (with the exception of the fifth), it wasn’t originally written as a John McClane adventure screenwriter David Marconi wrote it as a stand-alone cyber-thriller, its premise taken from a Wiredarticle called A Farewell To Arms. You may not have heard of WW3.com, but you’ll probably have heard of the film it ultimately became: Live Free Or Die Hard, or Die Hard 4.0. Given that Brainscanwas an early script from Andrew Kevin Walker – who’d go on to write such dark odysseys as Sevenand 8mm– it’s probably fair to say that the film could have been very different had Trickster been a more subtle presence. “I still thought I was going to be pretty much just an off-screen voice.” “I didn’t know at the time that they were in the process of expanding the character into a three-dimensional being, and that the discussion was about how much makeup might be needed,” Smith said of his audition. It was when director John Flynn saw Smith at an audition that he decided to make give Trickster a more prominent role. Ryder Smith, who played Trickster, his character was originally written as little more than a face on a screen. ![]() In fact, Brainscanmay have been even darker in an earlier draft. I’m going to shoot you between the balls!” Poetry. The result was a garish and eminently quotable machine gun opera which probably lacked some of the light and shade Loeb and Weisman intended, but at least contained such choice lines as, “John, I’m not going to shoot you between the eyes. Loeb and co-writer Matthew Weisman had originally written the central character for an older, less sculpted actor – they initially had Kiss rocker Gene Simmons in mind, but Nick Nolte was also considered when Simmons turned it down.Įverything changed when Commandowas chosen for Schwarzenegger, at which point action hotshot Steven E de Souza was brought in to give the script a rewrite. ![]() Released in 1985, Commandowas a post- Terminatoraction vehicle for the hulking Arnold Schwarzenegger, who played an ex-soldier all too willing to get the guns out when his daughter’s kidnapped. “This was about a guy who’d been an Israeli soldier, who’d actually turned his back on violence,” recalled screenwriter Jeph Loeb of his original Commandoscreenplay. Rosenberg took these ideas and incorporated them into his already salty and quotable script. That southern drawl? That was Nic Cage’s idea. So then I set about blowing it up out of all proportion, really”Ĭon Airwas therefore rewritten to suit producer Jerry Bruckheimer’s personal brand of widescreen destruction, with several actors adding their own contributions. But I had to make it into a big summer action movie, whereas at the moment it’s a small character piece. I thought, well, I can do something with this. Jerry liked it, obviously, and I liked it just because of the characters and their names, like Cyrus The Virus and Diamond Dog and things like that. “It was a character piece, really, by Scott Rosenberg who did Things To Do In Denver When You’re Dead and Beautiful Girls, which were very small little indie films with great characters. “The original script was much smaller than the eventual film,” West told us back in 2013. But according to director Simon West, Con Air wasn’t originally written as a high-octane action flick, but as a drama-thriller more akin to Things To Do In Denver When You’re Dead, also penned by Scott Rosenberg.
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