Summer Reruns

Hollywood Death Watch, Part LXXXX

While I thought that the filmic debut of K.I.T.T. and the remake of Clash of the Titans were evidence enough of Hollywood's utter creative dead zone, I just got a load of next summer's release lineup (with a newly announced addition)... and it's a downer:

Summer 2007 just got another sequel, and this one is in a prime slot. If further entries in the "Harry Potter", "Spider-Man", "Pirates of the Caribbean", "Shrek", "Fantastic Four", "Bruce Almighty", "Bourne Identity", "28 Days Later", "Rush Hour" and "Ocean's Eleven" franchises weren't enough, 20th Century Fox has now announced a June 29th 2007 release date for the fourth "Die Hard" film reports the trades.

Entitled "Live Free or Die Hard", and hitting the same day as Pixar's "Ratatouille", 'Hard' sees Bruce Willis confirmed to be reprising his role of New York cop John McClane in a story which centers on an attack on the U.S.' computer infrastructure that begins to shut the country down. However the villains never expected an old-fashioned cop to mess up his plans.

Looking forward to the Harry Potter movie (which, interestingly, isn't being directed by a big name) and potentially the next Bourne (Greengrass's frenetic camera work really made the last one for me, and he's back at the helm), but that's about it. (Though I have a feeling that Mrs. F will try to talk me into Die Hard, as she swoons a bit to Bruce Willis.)