Charlize Theron attends the ‘Bombshell’ New York screening at Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York City on 16 December 2019. Photo: Ron Adar / Echoes Wire/ Barcroft Media.
Charlize Theron attends the ‘Bombshell’ New York screening at Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York City on 16 December 2019. Photo: Ron Adar / Echoes Wire/ Barcroft Media.
The suggestion of a Die Hard remake in which South Africa’s own Charlize Theron “goes on a rampage to save her wife” is pretty outrageous and could never work, we’re sure of it.
But then, what if it… could it possibly…?
Theron herself seems fairly enticed by the idea – which was offered by a Twitter user on Tuesday – and asked where she can sign up and get this thing going.
‘Where do I sign?’ Theron keen on Die Hard reboot concept
Twitter user Francis O said that while “lesbian Christmas rom-coms are all well and good”, what she “REALLY wants” is a “Die Hard where Charlize Theron goes on a rampage to save her wife”.
She might not have expected the response to be as emphatically positive, and she even got the nod from the Monster, Bombshell, and Mad Max: Fury Road star herself.
Other uses offered their notes on the pitch, with one saying that the idea could evolve into a cinematic phenomenon.
“I mean basically just updated versions of ALL the greatest action movies with [Charlize Theron] in the lead role,” they posited.
“Rambo? Charlize Theron. Predator? Charlize Theron. Aliens? Ok…Charlize Theron AND Sigourney Weaver…”
Holiday classics due for a remodel?
Die Hard has, somewhat controversially, been accepted as a Christmas time classic worthy of its standing among other favourites Love Actually, Notting Hill, The Holiday, and of course Home Alone, Home Alone 2, Home Alone 3…
It might be a tough bargain to push over the line, but with the backing of such an acclaimed star, whose to say this time next year we won’t be enjoying a version of the classic utterly void of baldness, and rife with action packed, same-sex vengeance straight from 2020’s ultimate playbook.
Cue the nay-sayers, those who believe that James Bond can never be played by a black actor, and also those who detest the notion that a lesbian remodel of John McLane would be played by anyone other than a bald, female actor of genuine homosexual orientation.
