Dave Bautista ‘Final Score being called Die Hard RIP-OFF is an honour, I love that’ WATCH

The 49-year-old star’s new action flick sees Bautista play an ex-solider who has to fight terrorists when they’re taken hostages in a football stadium.

While it’s not a skyscraper, the Die Hard comparisons seem inevitable and the actor is completely unfazed by Final Score being called a rip-off.

Speaking with Express.co.uk, Bautista said: “Yeah we totally ripped off Die Hard, and I say that jokingly, but also at the same time think it’s a comparison we were after.

“Even from the moment this was first mentioned to me, it was pitched to me like this, ‘It’s basically Die Hard in a football stadium.’ And I said, ‘I love it’, and I think all along we never shied away from comparison.”

Bautista continued: “The comparison would be an honour because it’s a timeless film. It’s a film that holds up, it’s a film that I still love very much.

“So if people are walking away saying, ‘Yeah, that’s a rip off of Die Hard’, I’d say, ‘That’s okay, I love that.’

“It’s not necessarily a rip off, but that’s what we were after, for it to be Die Hard in a football stadium, and we’re proud of that.”

Final Score was shot at West Ham’s Upton Park, shortly before it was demolished.

He added: “It just wasn’t the easiest film to shoot and we were very much on a time crunch because we only had the stadium for so long before they started blowing stuff up.”

Apart from playing Drax the Destroyer in the Marvel movies, Bautista has also played Bond villain Mr Hinx in Spectre and hopes to return for Bond 25.

The actor said: “We had hopes, and…they had mentioned it.

“But yeah still have kinda hopes…I hear it’s been pushed, so maybe there’s a…chance.”

When asked if he specifically meant Bond 25, Bautista clarified: “Yeah I want to be in Bond 25. I’ve been very open and political about it. Like I’ve pursued this role.”

He added: “I would love to revive Hinx in Bond 25. I wanna be a part of it because it’s a historical film.

“There’s a huge part of me that wants the bragging rights of being that henchman who came back twice, because there hasn’t been many.

“And I wanna be that guy, I wanna be historical, y’know.”

Final Score is released in UK cinemas and Sky Cinema on September 7.