The era of reboots continues as Paramount is bringing back the 90’s film, Face/Off. The action film is getting a reboot written by 22 Jump Street script Oren Uziel. The news was first reported by The Hollywood Reporter.
The original film starred John Travolta and Nicolas Cage and directed by John Woo The premise of the film centers on
two arch enemies exchanging each other’s identities (and faces). The story follows FBI agent Sean Archer (Travolta), who is tracking down terrorist Castor Troy (Cage). When Troy boards a plane in Los Angeles that crashes and is severely injured, Archer undergoes surgery to remove his face and replace it with Troy’s in order to go undercover as the criminal. In a twist, Troy then awakes from a coma and forces the doctor who performed the surgery give him Archer’s face.
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