Action icon Bruce Willis, treading the boards on Broadway? It's happening—and he'll be playing a victim, too.

John McClane himself is set to star in a Broadway adaptation of the Stephen King novel Misery, according to the Hollywood Reporter. He'll play Paul Sheldon, a romance novelist who gets held captive by his deranged fan, Annie Wilkes, when she finds out he killed off a main character.

The film version of the book, with James Caan in Willis's role, nabbed Kathy Bates an Oscar in 1990. Sadly she won't be reprising her role, but Broadway vet Elizabeth Marvel will play opposite Willis onstage. Misery's screenwriter, William Goldman, also wrote the play's script. 

Willis has acted onstage before, but not on Broadway. Way back in 1983, he was a lowly understudy for Ed Harris in the off-Broadway play Fool for Love. A whole lot has changed since then, and it'll be interesting to see if he still has his live-theater chops.

But if he can outsmart Hans Gruber, we think Willis will do just fine thwarting his "number-one fan."