Adam Wingard updates Face / Off 2, an “absolute sequel” written for Nicolas Cage – Exclusive

We’ve seen Nicolas Cage do a lot of crazy and weird things on screen: running around with testicular-bound explosives in Prisoners of the Ghost Landembrace a model younger than himself The unbearable weight of an enormous talentand becomes a skeletal biker full of flames Ghost knight, to name a few. However, nothing comes close to the ludicrous idea of ​​Cage’s killer terrorist Castor Troy literally exchanging faces with John Travolta’s Sean Archer, aka the FBI agent chasing him, in John Woo’s gloriously insane film. deal withuntil 1997. Although there were rumors about a deal with sequel for a while now, nothing has materialized yet, but director Adam Wingard believes he and his regular collaborator Simon Barrett are close to finding out.

Wingard, who previously drove The guest Yes Godzilla vs. Kongworked on a deal with followed with Barrett for some time now, and his version is “an absolute sequel” that would see Cage return, despite (Spoiler alert!) Troy falls on the sharp point of a harpoon at the frantic end of the first film. “He lives a moment like this. even before Pig it’s out, we saw it as a Nicolas Cage movie, ”says Wingard. Empireafter The Lord of the Rings: The rings of power theme. “It has totally become the way to go now. A few years ago, the studio might have wanted a promising, young, attractive actor or something like that. Now Nicolas Cage is once again one of the most famous actors in Hollywood. ”

While Cage isn’t officially on board yet (he said a month ago he spoke to original producer Neal H. Moritz about his return), the plot will develop soon once Wingard and Barrett review the next draft. “We are really improving,” says Wingard. “We won’t share it until everyone says, ‘This is the one.'” Offering a belated sequel to one of the most beloved and ridiculously plotted films of all time, featuring one of Hollywood’s most eccentric and prolific men is no easy task, but Wingard is convinced that he and Barrett are “the perfect team” for the job. . “I think we really get it,” he says. “It probably was the the hardest script we’ve ever worked on, for many reasons. There is so much pressure in wanting to make sure it lives up to the legacy of this project. But in every draft, you’ve got these things clicking and you’re like, ‘Aha! that’s it deal with It is!”

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