It’s time to put a new face on an old Face/Off.
Yesterday, Deadline reported that the cult favorite John Woo action film starring Nicolas Cage and John Travolta will be rebooted with a new cast.
For the uninitiated, Face/Off is literally about two people who switch faces: a cop and a killer each undergo facial transplant surgery to look like the other.
As we have learned many times before with projects like True Detective and James Bond, the internet loves nothing more than to dream up ideal casts for rebooted IP.
After the news of the reboot broke, Twitter predictably got to work replacing Cage and Travolta with a potential pairs of new face swappers. The suggestions mainly focused on celebrities who look alike, from Jessica Chastain and Bryce Dallas Howard to Tom Hardy and Logan Marshall-Green.
https://twitter.com/JosephKahn/status/1171297929623044096
https://twitter.com/GuillermoDelAln/status/1171190342152048642
My pitch for the FACE/OFF reboot. pic.twitter.com/OSrpBHE0xd
— Dan Marcus (@Danimalish) September 9, 2019
Cast Dermot Mulroney and Dylan McDermott in the Face/Off remake, you cowards.
— Brian Tallerico (@Brian_Tallerico) September 9, 2019
https://twitter.com/themattmcd/status/1171194539370958849
Cast Vanessa Kirby and Samara Weaving in the FACE/OFF remake you cowards pic.twitter.com/iC2RfJCvgX
— Matt Donato (@DoNatoBomb) September 9, 2019
Listen, I don’t WANT a Face/Off remake.
— Cameron Frew (@FrewFilm) September 10, 2019
But… if I were to cast it.
Adam Driver and Jake Gyllenhaal.
CHANGE MY MIND. pic.twitter.com/IJ2rRyrQpk
https://twitter.com/MarceloJPico/status/1171219616301047809
Face/Off but it’s Henry Cavill and Matt Bomer and you literally can’t tell the difference pic.twitter.com/Gv0kD1fd0I
— Brandy Jensen (@BrandyLJensen) September 9, 2019
The FACE/OFF remake should star Richard Riehle and Brian Doyle-Murray. pic.twitter.com/obmgxsRTYa
— Andy Rattinger (@Rattinger) September 10, 2019
Only time will tell which pair of actors will get the honor of stepping into each other’s face. Though Oren Uziel, writer of 22 Jump Street and the upcoming Top Gun: Maverick is set to write, no other above the line talent has been announced as of yet.
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