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His movies The Long Kiss Goodnight and Kiss Kiss Bang Bang are both set during Christmas, and even his gig as writer and director of Marvel's Iron Man 3 managed to set the movie amid Christmas in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.Īll of this is a meandering way of saying that it feels, right now, like Dead Rising 4 is the zombie movie Shane Black would probably make, and if you and I have much in common, then you are probably as (tentatively) all-in on Capcom Vancouver's new game as you can possibly be six months before release. Black wrote Lethal Weapon, a movie that, like Die Hard, is set against the backdrop of Christmas and weaves it into the plot in meaningful ways that are nonetheless not about the holiday, and now, that's sort of Black's thing. It's a non-Christmas Christmas movie.īut arguably no director has made his stamp in the semi-acknowledged sub-genre more than writer (and now director) Shane Black. It's about the heist and John fighting it off. But unlike a holiday-themed movie, Die Hard isn't about Christmas. barge in looking for bearer bonds and everything goes bad. Die Hard takes place because it's Christmas - John McClane is in Los Angeles for Christmas to see his estranged wife and family, and he meets his wife at her office Christmas party before Hans Gruber & co. A popular example would be John McTiernan's Die Hard. These are films set against the backdrop of Christmas that are not actually about the holiday in any substantive way. And from those conversations, a sort of ancillary genre has emerged: the non-Christmas movie. Over the last five or six years, a common conversation has taken root in parts of the internet that overlap with hipster circles - and look, I'm not pointing any fingers here, or shirking responsibility or anything - over what makes a Christmas movie a Christmas movie. Dead Rising 4 is the kind of Christmas movie I can get behind.