There will soon be a Die Hard 5. That’s what Bruce Willis told MTV while promoting Kevin Smith’s Cop Out (in which he stars with Tracy Morgan).

Willis said, “I think we’re going to do a Die Hard 5 next year.”

Demi Moore’s ex-husband plays detective John McClane in the Die Hard movies, the first of which came out in 1988. It was followed by Die Hard 2 in 1990, Die Hard with a Vengeance in 1995, and Live Free or Die Hard in 2007. And the tough-but-vulnerable hero has a “mythology” that, “continues to grow,” said Willis, adding, “I take a certain amount of pride in being part of that [mythology]], and the fact that I still get to do it.”

But he also keeps things in perspective, telling MTV, “I like so much more making fun of it, taking the p*ss out of it and not making it a big deal. Not making the fact that I’ve acted in a lot of movies a big deal. It’s all illusion and it’s all bulls–t and it’s a great job for me to have, but everything else you can set on fire. Making people laugh is the real deal.”

Willis stated that he would like to see the director of the fourth movie, Len Wiseman, return to the series.

Meanwhile, Moviehole.net says Justin Long and Mary Elizabeth Winstead — who played McClane’s sidekick and daughter Lucy, respectively, in the last film — have both expressed interest in returning.

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