A recent update reaffirms that Face/Off 2 is still in the works, and that both original actors are also set to return.
A sequel to the 1997 action hit Face/Off has been in the works for several years now, but things never seem to have progressed much further than that, not least because the project’s director, Adam Wingard is so busy.
Until recently, Wingard had a Godzilla x Kong trilogy to juggle, along with Onslaught, a Thundercats adaptation, another project called Hardcore and the sequel to Face/Off on his slate. As we tend to see with filmmakers with such packed schedules, something always gets lost in the shuffle and so the possibility of Face/Off 2 ever coming to fruition never felt like a sure thing.
Since Wingard stepped away from helming the third Godzilla x Kong film, and with Onslaught currently filming, the director’s upcoming slate looks noticeably lighter, though. Given that Thundercats will likely require an extensive amount of development work and we haven’t heard anything new on the Hardcore front, could it be that cameras could roll on Face/Off 2 at some point next year?
A new report from Daniel Richtman (via World Of Reel)seems to confirm everything we’ve heard about the new Face/Off in the past, including the return of the original film’s stars and the idea that it will be a legacy sequel in which their grown children will ‘face off’ (likely in both senses of the phrase) while Cage and Travolta just get to have fun reprising their original roles. Here’s the outlet’s take:
Face/Off 2 is apparently centered around the children of Castor Troy (Cage) and Sean Archer (Travolta) who grow up destined to … face off. This is too wild to be true, but knowing Richtman’s source of reporting, he probably saw it on a recent production grid, which should not be discredited.
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Cage has certainly suggested as much in the past, saying in a Reddit Ask Me Anything a couple of years ago that he was up for returning for a sequel if he got to play the villainous Caster Troy for the whole movie rather than engaging in a switcheroo with Travolta’s earnest cop, Sean Archer.
The only absence here is that of John Woo, the original film’s director. Without Woo’s heightened sense of style, a Face/Off sequel would struggle to bear the name of its predecessor but we’re sure Wingard and his is longtime collaborator, writer Simon Barrett are only too aware of that and will be pushing hard to approximate Woo’s unique and operatic style. We’ll bring you more on this one as we hear it, but 2025 could finally be the year that Face/Off 2 grinds into motion, some 28 years after the release of the original.
