It's safe to say that the announcement of Die Hard: Year One wasn't exactly met with a chorus of yippie-ki-yays. Fans immediately assumed that franchise star Bruce Willis would ꦦbe playing a minimal role in 🐼the film, but that might not be the case after all.

Speaking with , director Len Wiseman has noted that Willis' present-day John McClane will show up in more than just a couple scenes in the f😼ilm: "He will be more present than that. This char꧙acter of course is modern day and the origin story if you can call it that has ramifications on present day McClane. What it’s not is it’s not a cameo bookend scenario. It’s a prequel/sequel hybrid that I really haven’t seen before and is incredibly different."

Of course, the amount of screen time Willis gets is not the only concern about the proposed Die Hard prequel. For one thing, doesn't the original 1988 classic qualify as Die Hard: Year One? How much more of McClane's origin do we really need to see? Inಌ an interview with , Wiseman stated that: "We’ve never seen the actual love story. We know its demise, but we’ve never seen what it was like when he met Holly, or when he was a beat cop in ‘78 in New York when there was no chance of him making detective. It’s always been something I’ve been thinking about, and now we’re doing it. And it ties in".