Ailing display motion hero Bruce Willis might be set to make a poignant farewell look in a giant Hollywood blockbuster - even when he's too ailing to behave.

His good friend, iconic filmmaker Quentin Tarantino, desires him for a cameo position in his tenth and remaining movie The Movie Critic, which begins capturing in September, in line with a senior manufacturing supply.

Willis, 68, formally retired final yr after struggling on units for greater than a decade earlier than being identified with the degenerative mind dysfunction aphasia.

In February this yr, his household introduced he's now affected by frontotemporal dementia, which robs victims of cognitive talents.

Last month, nevertheless, the Die Hard legend appeared wanting match and joyful in a video posted by his daughters following a household go to to Disneyland – and Tarantino is hoping he's nicely sufficient to carry out a short cameo.

The two grew to become agency mates after Tarantino solid him as ageing, on-the-run boxer Butch Coolidge in his 1994 crime basic Pulp Fiction, which helped Willis reestablish himself as a serious star following a profession stoop.

At the time, Tarantino declared: “Bruce has the look of a 50s actor. I can’t think of any other star that has that look.”

Now he desires to pay tribute to his previous pal, in line with the manufacturing supply, by providing him a small position in The Movie Critic, which will probably be set in Nineteen Seventies Los Angeles.

“Quentin hasn’t approached Bruce’s family yet – and will completely bow to their wishes if they say he’s too sick,” stated the supply.

“If that’s the case, he aims to try to work a brief clip from one of Bruce’s many previous movies into the film.”

Willis is being cared for by his spouse, former mannequin Emma Heming, 45, with whom he has two kids, in addition to his ex-wife, G.I. Jane actress Demi Moore, 60, and their three grown-up daughters Rumer, Scout and Tallulah.

A household spokesperson declined to touch upon the potential for him showing briefly in Tarantino’s movie, however our supply identified that the nod of appreciation can be a “fitting end” to a glittering profession of 129 movies.

Willis first discovered fame within the 80s TV comedy drama Moonlighting reverse Cybill Shepherd however the supply added: "His final few films all went straight to video or streaming because of his condition.

"Quentin desires to pay tribute to him with a fast glimpse for his legion of followers again on the large display the place he belongs."