"Basquiat" star Jeffrey Wright will play the major villain in "Live Free or Die Hard."
- Oct 4, 2006
AceShowbiz - The bad guy is finally found. According to JewReview.net, Jeffrey Wright has been chosen to play the villain in "Live Free or Die Hard", the fourth installment of "Die Hard" franchise, which currently is in production in Baltimore.
Being so, Wright thereby is the latest actor to join the project after Justin Long and Maggie Q, who finally is positive to star in. The story this time sees our hero John McClane, played by Bruce Willis, in his effort to stop a techno-terrorist from shutting down the nation's computer systems on the Fourth of July.
Also a stage actor, Wright recently took part in M. Night Shyamalan's "Lady in the Water" playing one of the tenants of the Cove apartment complex. He next can be seen in the 21st James Bond movie "Casino Royale" as Felix Leiter, a CIA agent who assists Bond in his various adventures.
