Timothy Olyphant is set to play the villain in Live Free or Die Hard, which opens in theaters on June 29 and even though we already have a trailer for the film he just started filming a short while ago. During the press junket for Catch and Release Olyphant was asked about the upcoming actioner and ComingSoon has the report:
I just started this week so we’re kind of feeling it out. But, it’s a cyber-terrorist plot based on this article that was in Wired magazine a few years ago saying that as horrific and sad as it was seeing a building come down, the real threat to the country was cyber-terrorism; if somebody were to hack into that infra-structure, they could cripple the country in a matter of days. This character is a guy who used to work for the government and warned them of this possibility and is now carrying it out. So, in its own right, it’s a different character, a different villain. There’s something that feels a little bit more unstable about a person who would do that kind of a thing. The ouch doesn’t really match the pinch. It was a guy whose career was ruined and is now saying ‘I told you so.'”
Meanwhile, Kevin Smith also has small role in Live Free or Die Hard and he talked a bit about his part as well:
I play a character that has a lot of depository dialogue; I’m the only person in ‘Die Hard’ who talks, and doesn’t shoot somebody… When I got there, I was like, ‘[director] Len [Wiseman], can I get a gun?’ He’s like, ‘No.’ But it’s fun; it’s that role in the action movie where you provide a bunch of information for them to head into act 3. And my character gets talked about throughout – and it could all change. But the time they get in the editing room, they might be like, ‘You suck, yank him out.’ But as it stands now, in the script, and as I shot it, they talk about me a lot and then they meet me; and I provide a lot of information about the villain.”
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