A Good Day to Die Hard is a 2013 American
action film and the fifth installment in the
Die Hard film series. The film was directed by
John Moore and written by
Skip Woods, and starring
Bruce Willis as
John McClane. The main plot finds McClane travelling to
Russia to get his estranged son, Jack, out of prison, but is soon caught in the crossfire of a terrorist plot. Talks of a fifth
Die Hard film began before the release of
Live Free or Die Hard, with Willis affirming that the latter would not be the last in the series, but pre-production did not start until September 2011, when John Moore was officially announced as the director. Filming began in April 2012, primarily in
Budapest,
Hungary.