'Die Hard' Director Calls Opening of The Beast 'Biggest Action Scene'

Renny Harlin, known for Die Hard 2 and Cliffhanger, says his next film leans fully into big-concept action. He discussed The Beast during a conversation with Collider's Steven Weintraub at the Mediterrane Film Festival in Malta, calling the movie both unusually contained and massive in scale and saying it begins with the “biggest action scene you’ve ever seen.” Harlin described the opening as a world summit—like a G7 meeting—where a humongous terrorist attack attempts to kill several presidents.

The immediate goal is to get Samuel L. Jackson’s president into the Beast, a safe, bulletproof, explosion-proof vehicle, and get him out before he’s killed. The film then turns that protection into a trap: the limousine is not only nearly indestructible but secretly built to fight back, so an emergency escape becomes a mobile fortress and eventually a weapon.

The Beast was written by Umair Aleem and produced by Keith Kjarval, Wayne Godfrey, Nicki Cortese, Rob Van Norden, and John Logan Pierson with Fifth Season.

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