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Nicolas Cage and John Travolta in FACE/OFF (1997)

Paramount Will FACE/OFF Once Again With Oren Uziel Penning The Reboot

If the last several years of an internet obsessed with Nicolas Cage and John Travolta memes weren’t enough, get a load of this from Deadline: A reboot of the 1997 hit action spectacle, Face/Off is in the works at Paramount Pictures. John Woo directed the original, casting the two aforememtioned actors for stoic LAPD detective Sean Archer, whose desperate undercover mission to save the city from a terrorist finds him swapping faces in a top-secret medical procedure with his sworn, now comatose archenemy, Castor Troy. The procedure is a success. However, before Archer can complete his mission, Troy awakens from his coma, undergoes the procedure to wear Archer’s face and eliminates anything and anyone knowledgeable of Archer’s status. With time running out and his family in danger, Archer has no choice but to make one daring move after another to claim his family back before it’s too late. A bit […]

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SUPERGIRL Feature Film Officially In Development At WB

Deadline‘s Mike Fleming Jr. confirmed on Monday that an adaptation of Supergirl is in the works at Warner Bros. News comes in the way of a new era at the studio with respect to its DC properties in the wake of its struggles after Justice League failed to impress at the box office in 2017. Otto Binder and Al Plastino launch the character via Action Comics in 1959 as the cousin of the titular root protagonist, “Superman”, who left doomed planet Krypton as a teen. Actress Helen Slater portrayed the character in Jeannot Szwarc’s 1984 film prior to its 2007 television rendition through the hit series, Smallville, and its current serial run on CBS featuring actress Melissa Benoist. Oren Uziel, whose credirs include 22 Jump Street and The Cloverfield Paradox, as well as the in-production Sonic The Hedgehog and producer James Wan’s Mortal Kombat, is penning the script with a […]

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