Writer Pitches Bruce Willis a Movie Idea in Full Page Ad

Wilkinson posted a letter on The Hollywood Reporter and in it he said that he hopes the producers of the “Die Hard” franchise would go back to a simpler and more believable storyline for the franchise to gain its former glory.

The indie film producer then went on to detail a Die Hard film where McClane is framed for a murder and then transported to a prison populated by murderers and terrorists. While on the inside, his wife comes to visit with evidence that could clear his name, but a riot breaks out, and McClane has to save the day, which will including tangling with a few MIddle Eastern terrorists.

Wilkinson took out a full page advertisement on The Hollywood Reporter to tell Bruce Willis and the producers of the “Die Hard” series about his concept for a sequel. “I have material, but bear in mind that it’s only been two or three weeks ago that Len Wiseman and Lorenzo di Boneventura announced that they were making Die Hard: Year One”. Wilkinson rightly points out in his ad that the problem with doing a Die Hard origin story is that the original film is a perfectly acceptable origin story. At the moment, only producer Len Wiseman is keeping Die Hard 6 (Die Hard: Year One) alive, Willis hasn’t been attached to the movie and it has no greenlight, so the only thing for sure is that Eric D. Wilkinson spent hundreds of dollars on a really public gamble for a job he probably won’t get. McClane’s investigation leads him to a sex trafficker called Clarence Sutton, who mysteriously vanishes just as McClane’s about to make the arrest. The rule-breaking McClane and his superior Winshaw butt heads. The case goes cold.

34 years later, Detective John McClane takes a personal leave and heads to Moscow to help his estranged son, who is being tried in a Russian court. While McClane is out of the country, the remains of Clarence Sutton are discovered, not only with DNA evidence linking Sutton to the murder of Ethan Peller, but additional evidence that ties John McClane to Sutton’s killing.

When McClane returns to the US, he’s arrested and sentenced to 30 years in a max prison facility that houses unsafe criminals including two terrorists. He simply wants a good Die Hard movie, as we all do, and he took a chance by posting his ad. Will anything come of it?

The pitch sees a 24-year old McClane in 1979 investigating the murder of a six-year old boy. But I can’t support the decisions you made in Live Free or Die Hard and A Good Day to Die Hard. So, just as Holly’s going to the prison to meet McClane to give him the news, a riot breaks out that sees hostages taken.

But this is no ordinary prison riot.

However the one thing the terrorists didn’t count on was the one man who is always in the wrong place at the wrong time… But Eric Wilkinson loves Die Hard more, because he put his money where his mouth is.