Director Wants Travolta & Cage Back for New R-Rated FACE/OFF Movie
Mike Sprague
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Godzilla vs. Kong director Adam Wingard’s new Face/Off movie is in the works. And today, Wingard reveals he wants John Travolta and Nicolas Cage to return. He says the current script features Cage’s Castor Troy and Travolta’s Sean Archer. But their involvement depends on how the actors like the draft.
Wingard tells Showbiz CheatSheet: “Some people just assume when I say that that it just means it takes place in the world of Face/Off. To me, Face/Off isn’t about a procedure or anything like that. It’s not about the world that the characters exist in. It’s about Sean Archer and it’s about Castor Troy. That’s what this movie is about. It’s the continuation of that story. It’s hard to talk about other than that but this is, to me, the definitive continuation of that saga.“
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He adds: “We’re still writing the script so it’s still in early phases. Simon and I are very close to turning in our draft to Paramount soon. We’ll have to get over those hurdles of do they like this movie? They’ve read our outline. Everybody’s on board with it but actually turning in the script’s a different thing so we’ll see how everybody reacts.”
Maybe this time, two women could switch faces? Wingard says: “It’s not that I would be opposed to that but again, this is a story about [Archer and Troy]. To stick with that, the story is leading us in a very specific direction.”
Wingard also confirmed he will walk away from the new movie WON’T be PG-13.
He says: “I would walk away from the project if somebody told me that you can’t do it Rated R. That’s a dealbreaker for me. I think that’s what makes it so interesting. Doing a sequel to Face/Off kind of gives us the permission to go back and make this sort of manly driven action movies, violent rated R action movies that you don’t see nowadays. I think because there’s not a lot of that, that’s what makes it unique and I think that’s why people are so interested. ‘Oh, this might be kind of a throwback in a way that’s very interesting and still modern at the same time.’“
Wingard recently stressed this new film is a direct sequel – not a reboot.
He says: “I would never make a remake of Face/Off. I would never make a reboot. And I’ve seen a lot of people, even after I said that this is a direct sequel, they keep calling it a reboot hybrid sequel or remake hybrid sequel. It’s none of that. This is Face/Off 2. And I can’t say what that means exactly, but this is either going to be the definitive follow-up to that movie and everything that entails, or I’m not going to make it, because everything’s got to line up perfectly.”
He added: “The script’s going really good, Simon [Barrett] and I are almost finished… We’ve been working a lot over quarantine, and this was our main project. Face/Off 2. That’s what it is It is Face/Off 2, and I’ll just leave it at that.”
Wingard directs from a script he’s writing with Simon Barrett (You’re Next, The Guest). Neal Moritz produces while David Permut will serve as executive producer.
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
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