{"id":492802,"date":"2026-02-22T22:01:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T22:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/492802\/"},"modified":"2026-02-22T22:01:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T22:01:07","slug":"face-off-2-director-adam-wingard-is-now-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/492802\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Face\/Off 2’ Director Adam Wingard is Now\/Gone"},"content":{"rendered":"

Do you remember when it was announced a\u00a0Face\/Off\u00a0sequel<\/a> was in development? If so, you\u2019ll be displeased to hear the sequel\u2019s hit a snag after its director dropped out.<\/p>\n

First reported by Collider<\/a> earlier this week, Adam Wingard has left the project he was co-writing with Simon Barrett. No particular reason was given for his leave, but Collider noted he was first attached to the project since its official announcement, and even hyped it up during the press run<\/a> for Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire\u00a0in 2024. With this sequel now off his plate, Wingard\u2019s focused on his upcoming A24 film\u00a0Onslaught. It\u2019s unclear how his leave affects Barrett, who he\u2019s worked with on various films, Onslaught and New Empire\u00a0included.<\/p>\n

After Wingard was first attached to Face\/Off 2, returning star Nicholas Cage indicated it\u2019d be a face-swapping feast<\/a>. Not only would he and John Travolta change faces again, so would the now-grown versions of their kids from the original film. \u201cIt becomes three-dimensional chess,\u201d said Cage in 2023. \u201cIt\u2019s four of us ping-ponging and going at different levels, and it becomes even more complex.\u201d With new creative voices now able to take over, hopefully that part of the film stays in the changeover. It sounds amazingly dumb, and way too good of a premise to lose.<\/p>\n

We\u2019ll have more on\u00a0Face\/Off 2\u00a0as news emerges.<\/p>\n

Want more io9 news? Check out when to expect the latest Marvel<\/a>, Star Wars<\/a>, and Star Trek<\/a> releases, what\u2019s next for the DC Universe on film and TV<\/a>, and everything you need to know about the future of Doctor Who<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Do you remember when it was announced a\u00a0Face\/Off\u00a0sequel was in development? If so, you\u2019ll be displeased to hear…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":492803,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[196802,49,48,75,116265,197824],"class_list":{"0":"post-492802","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-adam-wingard","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-face-off","13":"tag-nicholas-cage"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=492802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492802\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/492803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=492802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=492802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=492802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}