Director Adam Wingard wants Nicolas Cage back for Face/Off 2
Wingard is looking to reap the rewards of the new age of Cage
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There are few actors who are having a better year than Nicolas Cage, and as his star power rises again, some directors are looking to seize the opportunity—including Adam Wingard. The Godzilla Vs. Kong director is looking to bring Cage back as Castor Troy for his Face/Off 2.
“We’re really honing in on it,” Wingard tells Empire. “We’re not going to share it until everybody’s like, ‘This is the one.’”
John Woo directed the original 1997 feature starring Cage and John Travolta, who play a mobster and cop who not only trade places, but also faces. Despite Troy’s apparent death in the first film, Wingard says he’s absolutely looking to revive the character for the sequel.
“He’s just having such a moment. Even before Pig came out, we saw this as a Nicolas Cage movie,” Wingard says. “That’s become totally the obvious way to go now. A couple of years ago, the studio maybe would have wanted a hot, young, up-and-coming actor or something. Now, Nicolas Cage is one of the hottest actors in Hollywood again.”
Despite the change in directors and several decades of passed time between the original and the slated sequel, Wingard says he and longtime collaborator Simon Barrett are looking to live up to fan’s expectations.
“There’s so much pressure in wanting to make sure that it lives up to the legacy of that project,” Wingard says. “But every draft you have these things that just click in, and you’re like, ‘A-ha! That’s really what Face/Off is!’”
Following buzzy projects such as Pig and The Unbearable Weight Of Massive Talent, Cage is as in-demand as he ever was. In 2023, he’ll also appear as Dracula himself in Renfield. He’s also got two Westerns on the frontier: The Old Way and Butcher’s Crossing.
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Boring
Watch?/No.
I went from actively anticipating a new Adam Wingard movie to actively avoiding a new Adam Wingard movie.
But Castor Troy died in 1997 while wearing John Travolta’s face. They then cut that face off his dead body and put it back on John Travolta. Why would they cut Nic Cage’s face off of John Travolta and graft it back onto a corpse?
Open casket funeral, I guess?IDK, I feel like whatever the writers concoct to justify bringing Cage’s character back here is gonna have to be some absolute Grade-A bullshit. Even more so if they’re gonna try and replicate the face-swapping thing. I mean, the original’s plot wasn’t exactly watertight itself, but even then.
This Castor Troy is a different guy who found the original’s discarded face, grafted it onto himself, and assumed Troy’s identity. It’s not that hard.
You’re right. I hope that this franchise about Nicholas Cage and John Travolta swapping faces doesn’t take a turn for the ridiculous.
Not AGAIN!
The face removal stuff is ridiculous enough, why are you complaining about something as run of the mill in cinema and comic books and religious texts as resurrection?
I’ve got this. Prior to the finale Troy swaps faces with a third man, one of his henchmen. The guy impaled by a harpoon isn’t Troy. Later Troy arranges for his face to stolen from the body and for the body to be destroyed under suspicious circumstances that Sean Archer doesn’t notice given that he is spending a lot of time in therapy with his family, including Troy’s son?
So many places they can go with this movie. Maybe an Sean Archer can go into therapy because hes having a hard time dealing with his trauma from the events from the first movie and the sequel is called:
Face/Off 2: About Face
or maybe there was an issue with the surgery to change Archer’s face back and a crack team of surgeons from around the word have to be shrunk to a microscopic size and injected into his face to repair it – but it’s a race against time because there is a stow away on board the ship!. That sequel can be called:
Face/Off 2: Saving Face
or maybe they can just have fun with it and bring back John Travolta and make it into a musical – think La La Land with explosions, they can call it:Face/Off 2: Face the Music!
Face/Off2 : InterfaceFace/Off 2: DefacedFace/Off 2: A Face Against TimeFace/Off 2: The Face-Tricks Reloaded
Face/Off 2: Face Jam
I hope Face Jam is the one where Sean Archer has entered his mother’s strawberry and rhubarb preserves recipe into the Smucker’s national jam & jelly competition – and it’s a race against time!
“Face Jam” was the name of the parties that i used to throw in high school
In the aftermath of the traumatic events of the first movie, Sean Archer begins experiencing crippling headaches, and searches for relief on late night TV:Face/Off: Head On
I forgot his name was “Archer” and man is it confusing me.
Face/Alf
Face/Off 2: Face 2 Facein which, during the Face/Off face switch surgery, the faces get stuck together, forcing the hero and villain to share an apartment until the face separation specialist gets back from a two month vacation… will they learn to get along????and to answer the obvious question, no, one cannot kill the other because 1) the skin rot would spread from the dead one’s face to the not dead one’s face and 2) the live one would be stuck with the wrong face!
Nic Cage and Giancarlo Esposito.
Blackface/Off
That sequel needs a scene like the original Face/Off, where a scientist tells us that Cage and Esposito basically have indistinguishable features, so they should look just like each other when they swap faces.
What about Croods 3?
I miss R rated action movies. Face Off & Con Air were the end of the era that started with 80s movies like Commando. Can we get an action star under the age of 50 in a schlocky, over the top, ridiculously big & violent movie?
I’m pretty sure everybody realized nothing can top Bad Boys 2 in that department.
try THE LAST STAND
I mean Suicide Squad and Deadpool are the closest we’re ever going to get to that, and that’s only because they’re superhero IP.
Hey, man. Keanu is ageless.
This works out since Nic Cage has had at least 2 or 3 faces since then.
I wanna see Face/Off but it’s Idris Elba and Kanye West
Castor Troy was a terrorist, not a mobster. He was in it for the love of the game, not the money.
Face/Off 2
Or, make a different movie with Nic Cage in it. That’s also fine to do. A sequel to a horrible, but incredibly entertaining movie from decades ago in which his character died is not at all a good plan.