Movie series Die Hard not dead yet

John McClane's string of bad luck may not yet be over.

Hitman screenwriter Skip Woods is in negotiations with 20th Century Fox to take a crack at a new Die Hard script.

The New York cop known for consistently being in the wrong place at the right time has already survived four run-ins with terrorists, traitors and psychotic loose cannons of one stripe or another.

In his last outing, Live Free or Die Hard, written by Mark Bomback and directed by Len Wiseman in 2007, McClane battled web terrorists to $378 million in worldwide grosses - 20 years after pitching Hans Gruber out of a broken window.

The studio sees another installment as a strong bet.

There's no word yet on the new project's story line, but former Fox executive Alex Young (Unstoppable) is producing.

Woods has co-written several high-profile projects for Fox, including X-Men Origins: Wolverine and the forthcoming TV-series adaptation The A-Team. He also wrote the original screenplay for Swordfish.

Bruce Willis, who plays McClane, has several projects moving toward release - Sylvester's Stallone's The Expendables and the action comedy Red - and then a late-summer production start on the video-game adaptation Kane & Lynch.

After that, he's free to dig out the stubble, filthy T-shirt and beleaguered wisecracks.

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- Reuters