Q: If you could make any kind of movie that you wanted to – and you do, you do a lot of different things – you do Quentin’s movies and the Hip Hop Project. Why revisit something that was 12 years old before you even start?

Bruce Willis: That’s a really good question. I could’ve very easily chosen to retire undefeated. I mean the first three Die Hards have earned somewhere around $1.3 billion in international revenues and DVD sales and all that. But in retrospect, I was never really that … I was never as happy with the second and third one as I was with the first one and I always wanted to do one more and see if we could come close to the quality and the feel and just the level of drama and at the same time, I don’t know, just the elements of the first film. And the potential to fail was really high, was really great, and I can’t tell you how good it feels to be sitting here talking about a film that I’ve already seen and know is really strong and really powerful and really satisfies me in a way that was something I set out to do, that I wanted to do. And I’m a gambler by nature, you know. I’d rather take a risk than not. You guys have seen some of the risks that I’ve taken that didn’t succeed.

Q: Do you have a list of those?

Bruce Willis: [Laughs] I think you know those films better than I do. The one with the shorts on the boat. Excuse me [makes gagging sound]. I remember saying before that film, ‘How bad can it be?’

Q: Len, this is a film with some pretty intense sequences. Can you tell me on average how long it took to film each one of those scenes and the physical challenges you faced? And for Justin, did you ever get teased by anyone on the crew about playing a computer geek in this movie and being on Mac commercials?

Justin Long: Mostly behind my back. [to Bruce Willis and Len Wiseman] You guys want to go ahead and answer? My answer will be pretty long and involved.

Len Wiseman: [Laughs] What was the question? Well you’d have to give me one of the sequences that you’re talking about and I could give you an idea.

Q: The sequence in the tunnel.

Len Wiseman: How long did that take?

Q: Yes.

Bruce Willis: How long were we in there?

Len Wiseman: Well we were probably in there around…

Bruce Willis: First unit…

Len Wiseman: Yeah, first unit was in there for maybe…

Bruce Willis: Ten days?

Len Wiseman: It was pretty short. Just about a week.

Bruce Willis: It was just before Thanksgiving. I would say almost ten days. Probably 8 or 9 days.

Len Wiseman: It feels like 10 days.

Bruce Willis: It felt like 10 days but the second unit was in there doing the actual – like that car that you see flipping in the ad – I don’t know if you saw it in the 20-minute section that you saw, but that car is a real car flipping that they cabled up and got up on cables and I think they did it -- I don’t know – 6 or 7 times before they were happy with it. [to Len] So how long were they in it?

Len Wiseman: They were in there for a long time.

Bruce Willis: Awhile, right?

Len Wiseman: I don’t remember how long.

Bruce Willis: They were crashing cars.

Len Wiseman: We were doing the helicopter with the police car going in and the helicopter business. That was all at that location.

Bruce Willis: Oh, right.

Len Wiseman: Actually we did that stunt twice and hit it on the second one.

Bruce Willis: The helicopter?

Len Wiseman: No.

Bruce Willis: Oh, the car hook.

Len Wiseman: Yeah, the car hook.

Bruce Willis: I’ll have to go back and correct all my interviews. I added a little bit to it. Anyway probably about a month’s time in that tunnel.

Justin Long: I had never done a movie like this. It was just crazy for me to see how long and involved all these stunts and sequences were. You see the movie, you sort of forget what you're doing. You forget what the means to the end is or what the end is going to be, and then you see it, and all those weeks and weeks of waiting and setups and da da da, just fades in seconds of film. These scenes that I freaked out about where I was doing push ups and trying to get in character to deliver all these lines, they're just like Bah and then cut to another guy and back to me, going Bah! It really is, I have a friend who works on the show CSI: Miami, I was freaking out about the character and he said, "You're not going to have time to look good or bad. It's just going to be like a quick shot of you going Bah and then that's it." So it's amazing, just considering all the time, and you guys are probably used to it but I had never done a movie like this and it was overwhelming to be a part of it. And then you see it and it's like, "That was really fast. It was over." In terms of people making fun of me, they did for many reasons. I think lower on the list- -

Bruce Willis: Not just the geek.

Justin Long: Not just the geek thing. There was a whole effeminate thing, the whole I have three testicles.

Len Wiseman: But just don't show your testicles.

Justin Long: I can't help it. I win a lot of money that way. No, I don't think anybody ever really- - everyone was bugging me about getting an iPhone. I remember one day when it was announced, everyone went, "I want an iPhone." People that had never talked to me were like, "Hey, Justin." But I don't think anybody ever – was that a concern?

Len Wiseman: It wasn’t on set.  I don’t know what you had heard.

Bruce Willis: She was talking more about real life as opposed to the film.

Justin Long: But people do often come up to me. The funny thing about people recognizing me with the Mac thing is they're always very casual about it. They never seem at all impressed. They're just very like, "Oh, there's a tree, there's a bowl, there's the Mac guy, there's…" It's very nonchalant about it. I don't know why they wouldn't be. People also ask me a lot of questions about computers. I play a hacker in this movie and I have to deliver a lot of exposition about like "Well, the algorithm is contracted into…"

Len Wiseman: That was the one thing I was surprised most about when we met is how much you don't know about computers.

Justin Long: Yeah, I'm very, very computer illiterate. So I just think it's sort of funny that for somebody who is as retarded as I am is playing the smart hacker guy. I get the worst of both worlds. I look like a geeky hacker but I don't know anything about computers.

Bruce Willis: It's a lose-lose situation.

Over the years the Die Hard 4 rumors included you and Ben Affleck in the jungle. Why this story?

Len Wiseman: That movie did come out with you and Ben in the jungle.

Bruce Willis: It was Cole Hauser. That was Cole Hauser. Ben wasn't in that.

Len Wiseman: I'm sorry.

Bruce Willis: It just seemed like the right time. It was a good script and a bunch of different elements conspired to kind of bring it together. At a certain point, it's just a leap of faith. I just had to say, "Let's take a shot." I liked what Len had to say about the film and I was pretty confident in the fact that if we got a good story that we could improve upon that which is what we ultimately did. But at the end of the day, when it's the 11th and a half hour, you just got to say, "Here we go." Look, it could've sucked. We could be sitting here trying to get you excited about it. The really rewarding thing is to know that we have a great film. When I first saw the first cut of this film, I was so impressed and relieved at the same time. It really is kind of counter programming to what's out there this summer. But the Ben Affleck thing, I don't know where that came from. I heard that story too.

Len Wiseman: I heard that too. I heard a lot of stories about different plotlines.

Bruce Willis: Lotta rumors out there. Are you an internet guy? Yeah, there you go. A lot of rumors out there.

Len Wiseman: You were telling me a story about somebody that pitched you an idea of, "It's Die Hard… in a building!" It had come complete full circle, "But it's a really big building"

Bruce Willis: I went [makes face]

Len, with the movie only a month away can you tell us what’s left to finish and what will the running time be?

Len Wiseman: I can tell you right now because they're all texting me about getting back to finish those parts. We're in the final mix right now so I'm doing all the sound work and score and all that stuff, so that's where it's at right now. A lot of the visual effects, you're always doing the fine tweeking and things. And the final running time is right at about two hours.

Justin, with the footage that we saw it seems like you may have improvised some of your lines. Was that all scripted or did you improv?

Justin Long: Yeah, there was. They always wanted us to do a bunch scripted, but the script was sort of in a constant state of flux so there was definitely- - Bruce, you did it too. There was a lot of that going on. In those moments of sort of like extreme, I'm always scared for my life, it's kind of hard to stick to- - you kind of have to bring something a bit more natural. Some of the dialogue was not exactly solidified.

Len Wiseman: Yeah, there was a lot of that.

JL: I'm just surprised he left a lot of it in. I was really, really surprised.

Len Wiseman: A lot of them actually, what both of these guys did, a lot of the comedy is really just you get there on the day and the script is a road map, but then just the energy of what comes out of that day, different ideas and things. A lot of it made the movie.

Bruce Willis: But also, we didn't shoot the film in sequence. Very few films are shot in sequence and had we shot the film in sequence, we might have stuck a little bit closer to the dialogue but we had to shoot alternate takes of almost every scene in case the scene that we didn't shoot that was going to be schedule a month from now turned out to either be in the film or not be in the film. There was one scene, the scene that had to do with Kevin Smith, that we called the Warlock scene because that's the name of his character. We only had Kevin Smith for three days and it was a really locked in three days. Anything that we didn't know if it was going to be in the film or not, we said, "Just put it in the Warlock scene." So by the time we got to Kevin Smith's scene, it was a nine page scene. Fortunately, we had shot enough of the film that we knew what we needed from that scene and what we didn't need from it. Kevin Smith actually helped us write a lot of that scene.

Len Wiseman: That was a challenging part to go back to that other question. I mean, to shoot a film so out of sequence…

Bruce Willis: Was not the best way.