{"id":438498,"date":"2026-02-21T20:25:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T20:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/438498\/"},"modified":"2026-02-21T20:25:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T20:25:08","slug":"adam-wingard-no-longer-directing-face-off-sequel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/438498\/","title":{"rendered":"Adam Wingard No Longer Directing ‘Face\/Off’ Sequel"},"content":{"rendered":"

It was announced several years ago that\u00a0Adam Wingard\u00a0(V\/H\/S, You\u2019re Next, The Guest, Blair Witch, Godzilla vs. Kong) had been hired to direct a new take on John Woo\u2019s 1997 action-thriller\u00a0Face\/Off\u00a0for Paramount, being billed as a sequel to the original movie that starred\u00a0John Travolta\u00a0and\u00a0Nicolas Cage. Unfortunately, it looks like those plans have changed.<\/p>\n

The Hollywood Reporter<\/a> lets us know this weekend that Adam Wingard actually left the director\u2019s chair for Face\/Off 2 last summer, with the split said to be a mutual agreement.<\/p>\n

\u201cFace\/Off 2 is now an open assignment at the studio,\u201d The Hollywood Reporter notes in their exclusive report, \u201cwith other filmmakers pitching their own visions.\u201d<\/p>\n

Wingard told Empire in 2022<\/a>, \u201c[Nicolas Cage is] just having such a moment. Even before\u00a0Pig\u00a0came out, we saw this as a Nicolas Cage movie. That\u2019s become totally the obvious way to go now. A couple of years ago, the studio maybe would have wanted a hot, young, up-and-coming actor or something. Now, Cage is one of the hottest actors in Hollywood again.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re really honing in on it,\u201d Wingard said of the script he was writing with partner Simon Barrett. \u201cWe\u2019re not going to share it until everybody\u2019s like, \u2018This is the one.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

The original film starred John Travolta and Nicolas Cage as an FBI agent and a sadistic terrorist who quite literally swap faces. \u201cIn order to foil a terrorist plot, an FBI agent undergoes facial transplant surgery and assumes the identity of a criminal mastermind, who murdered his only son. The plan turns sour when the criminal wakes up prematurely and seeks revenge.\u201d<\/p>\n

What is Adam Wingard up to instead? Wingard\u2019s next movie will be the action-thriller Onslaught<\/a> for A24, but he will NOT be directing the next Godzilla x Kong movie, Supernova<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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