BRUCE WILLIS - WILLIS CONFIRMS DIE HARD 4 NEARLY READY TO ROLL

Hollywood actor BRUCE WILLIS yesterday (19MAY06) announced film-makers are ready to start shooting a fourth DIE HARD movie, and they hope to have it in cinemas next year (07). Speaking at the Cannes Film Festival in France, Willis - who stars as policeman JOHN MCCLANE in the Die Hard films - revealed the highly-anticipated sequel is expected to start filming soon. He said, "We're as close as we've ever got to getting Die Hard 4 started. "It won't be called Die Hard 4 but that will be the story. Hopefully it will be out next summer." The movie's plot had to be rewritten after last year's (05) Hurricane Katrina tragedy - the original screenplay involved an oil tanker explosion that sends huge waves flooding into New Orleans, Louisiana. Die Hard was released in 1988 and made Willis a star. Two sequels followed - DIE HARD 2: DIE HARDER in 1990 and DIE HARD WITH A VENGEANCE in 1995.