New FACE/OFF Snags Godzilla Vs Kong Director Adam Wingard
Mike Sprague
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Paramount has snagged Godzilla vs Kong director Adam Wingard to helm their upcoming new Face/Off flick. Once referred to as a remake, Wingard’s new flick will be a sequel to the original film. That said, we hear the plan is for the leads, originally played by John Travolta and Nicolas Cage to be re-cast.
Wingard will pen the script from scratch with Simon Barrett (You’re Next, The Guest). Neal Moritz produces while David Permut will serve as executive producer.
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The original film centered on FBI agent (John Travolta), obsessed with bringing an evil terrorist (Nicolas Cage) to justice. Travolta tracks Cage down and crashes his plane, leaving him severely injured, possibly dead. Travolta then undergoes surgery to remove his face and replace it with Cage’s. As Travolta tries to use his disguise to elicit information about a bomb from Cage’s brother, Cage awakes from a coma and forces the doctor who performed the surgery to give him Travolta’s face.
It sports a 92% on Rotten Tomatoes. The Critics Consensus reads: John Travolta and Nicolas Cage play cat-and-mouse (and literally play each other) against a beautifully stylized backdrop of typically elegant, over-the-top John Woo violence
Are you up for Wingard and Barrett’s Face/Off 2?
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