Face Off Movie Reboot Being Developed By 22 Jump Street Writer
Paramount Pictures is developing a reboot of John Woo’s Face/Off. Even by 1990s action movie standards, Woo’s original 1997 hit is a bit ridiculous. The film starred Nicolas Cage and John Travolta as, respectively, a maniacal killer named Castor Troy and FBI agent Sean Archer - the man who’s been obsessed with catching Castor since he murdered Sean’s son. When Castor plants a bomb but is knocked into a coma before he can tell Sean where it’s at, the latter decides to undergo facial surgery and (literally) swap faces with him, in order to stop the attack....