Face/Off - sequel (D: Wingard)
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No Cage, no sale.
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One of my favorite movies of all time. No to the reboot!
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Hubbub (02-16-21)
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Can any director working in Hollywood today direct action on the same level as John Woo? I don't think so.
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Hubbub (02-16-21)
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If this does get greenlit, I'd like to see them look into the John Wick directors either Chad Stahelski or David Leitch. Either of them could handle the craziness of this type of movie.
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If Dominique Swain does not play the daughter no sale
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Would it be too much to ask to bring back Travolta and Cage and have Cage play Sean Archer and Travolta play Castor Troy?
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DaveyJoe (02-11-21)
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It was a remake of the 1990 movie.
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Nice scenery...
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https://deadline.com/2021/02/face-of...nt-1234690371/
Paramount Pictures has chosen You’re Next and Godzilla Vs. Kong director Adam Wingard to helm its re-imagining of Face/Off, the 1997 John Woo-directed action thriller that starred John Travolta and Nicolas Cage. Wingard will write the script with his scripting partner Simon Barrett and the studio will reboot the film, with new cast. Neal Moritz will produce and David Permut will be executive producer.
Oren Uziel had been part of the equation when Paramount set up the remake last fall, but the understanding is Wingard and Barrett are starting from scratch. Despite a fairly preposterous-sounding premise, the original film was a wild ride that became the top grossing U.S. film of its Hong Kong director John Woo as it did $246 million in global ticket sales. It is easy to imagine this taking shape as a two-hander with a couple of strong male or female stars. In the original, Travolta played FBI agent Sean Archer. He is so obsessed with catching a homicidal sociopath named Castor Troy, who is responsible for killing the fed’s son, that the agent undergoes facial transplant surgery and takes the mug of his nemesis so he can be sent to prison to find out a bomb’s whereabouts and stop an attack. The plan goes awry when the bad guy wakes up and takes the face of the FBI agent. Soon, the new-faced Castor visits the agent with the villainous face and takes glee in taunting him, telling him that the face surgeons have been killed, that the good guy is stuck looking in the mirror at the face he hates most, and that the villain is going home to bed his wife and take over his home life. It escalates into a series of choreographed action sequences. Mike Werb and Michael Colleary wrote the original.
Paramount Pictures has chosen You’re Next and Godzilla Vs. Kong director Adam Wingard to helm its re-imagining of Face/Off, the 1997 John Woo-directed action thriller that starred John Travolta and Nicolas Cage. Wingard will write the script with his scripting partner Simon Barrett and the studio will reboot the film, with new cast. Neal Moritz will produce and David Permut will be executive producer.
Oren Uziel had been part of the equation when Paramount set up the remake last fall, but the understanding is Wingard and Barrett are starting from scratch. Despite a fairly preposterous-sounding premise, the original film was a wild ride that became the top grossing U.S. film of its Hong Kong director John Woo as it did $246 million in global ticket sales. It is easy to imagine this taking shape as a two-hander with a couple of strong male or female stars. In the original, Travolta played FBI agent Sean Archer. He is so obsessed with catching a homicidal sociopath named Castor Troy, who is responsible for killing the fed’s son, that the agent undergoes facial transplant surgery and takes the mug of his nemesis so he can be sent to prison to find out a bomb’s whereabouts and stop an attack. The plan goes awry when the bad guy wakes up and takes the face of the FBI agent. Soon, the new-faced Castor visits the agent with the villainous face and takes glee in taunting him, telling him that the face surgeons have been killed, that the good guy is stuck looking in the mirror at the face he hates most, and that the villain is going home to bed his wife and take over his home life. It escalates into a series of choreographed action sequences. Mike Werb and Michael Colleary wrote the original.
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What actors working today could give such insane performances in the same vein of Travolta and Cage? I honestly don’t know.
#43
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I could see actors like Ryan Reynolds and James Franco or Jamie Foxx and Terrence Howard, but I don't think it would be a good idea to have such insane performances. Copy the premisse, don't copy the execution.
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I thought The Guest was a great action movie that had a sort of self-aware, almost-but-not-quite humorous tone that could work for a film like this; so I'm cautiously optimistic.
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I love The Guest but this seems to be about as necessary as his Blair Witch reboot.
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Bluelitespecial (02-15-21)
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