Die Hard in Katrina re-write.

Byline: By IAN MARKHAM-SMITH

HOLLYWOOD scriptwriters are having to work round the clock to rewrite the plot of a new Bruce Willis action movie because of the Hurricane Katrina tragedy.

The script of Die Hard 4, the long-awaited third sequel in the Die Hard series, has had to be drastically altered.

Unfortunately for movie moguls, the action-packed plot bore a chilling resemblance to the devastation caused by Katrina in New Orleans, Louisiana.

Its original plot had 50-year-old Bruce Willis's hero character John McClane and his daughter involved in a terror plot while on a holiday in the Gulf Coast.

The film was to feature a high octane sequence on the Mississippi with a freight train crashing through a bridge on to an oil tanker, causing an enormous explosion which sends monster waves into New Orleans.

A source said: "The Mississippi scene would have been spectacular but there is no way it can be used."

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STAR: Bruce Willis