Everyone Is Confused By The ‘Face/Off’ Reboot News, But They’ve Also Got Casting Ideas

From the heavily meta BH90210 to the upcoming Mortal Kombat, all kinds of properties are being rebooted, remake or “revived” thanks to the ongoing nostalgia boom. Some of these titles, like Netflix’s Fuller House series, have already began making their final bows. But that doesn’t mean that more is on the way, and sure enough, Paramount Pictures revealed on Monday that it was working on rebooting the 1997 John Woo classic Face/Off.

Yes, that’s right. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Paramount and 22 Jump Street writer Oren Uziel are currently working on a Face/Off remake that will be produced by Fast & Furious franchise veteran Neal Moritz. And yes, I’m talking about that movie — you know, the one in which still-working actors Nicolas Cage and John Travolta played a terrorist and a lawman, respectively, that undergo a face-swapping procedure so that the latter can infiltrate the former’s organization. Totally serious discussions of the film’s potential reboot have been discussed before. Now it’s happening.

Since the news only broke today, and the project is still in its earliest developmental phases, Paramount had no casting announcements to make. Yet that didn’t stop Twitter — which was equal parts confused, excited and horrified by the remake’s existence — from tossing around a few casting ideas of its own.

— rat king (@MikeIsaac) September 9, 2019

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— Aaron from Uproxx (@AaronSmarter) September 9, 2019

‘Face/Off’ reboot to explore the idea ‘what if we made Face/Off again and it was shit’

— pixelatedboat aka “mr tweets” (@pixelatedboat) September 9, 2019

nope https://t.co/R7it9Ojcvg

— your pal andy (@andylevy) September 9, 2019

No one tell the @HDTGM crew https://t.co/rNI7X3ZsBA

— Ryan “Tweets” McGee (@TVMcGee) September 9, 2019

What I’m pitching here is an action/body horror type deal. Like something so off-putting and horrifying to look at that we would have NO CHOICE but to show up for it. I’m talking Vin Diesel’s head on Timothee Chalamet’s body and Cronenberg is directing.

— Scott Wampler™ (@ScottWamplerBMD) September 9, 2019

Anyways, about those casting ideas… some of them are actually pretty good!

— Howlin’ Hollywood Matt Donato (@DoNatoBomb) September 9, 2019

1) don't do this

2) Bill Hader/Anthony Carrigan https://t.co/NBkTYGah1K

— alexis nedd (@alexisthenedd) September 9, 2019

Face/Off but it’s Henry Cavill and Matt Bomer and you literally can’t tell the difference pic.twitter.com/Gv0kD1fd0I

— Brandy Jensen (@BrandyLJensen) September 9, 2019

Kate McKinnon and Leslie Jones imho https://t.co/YyTDdYWaJO

— Vinnie Mancuso (@VinnieMancuso1) September 9, 2019

The Face/Off remake should be all about someone trying to steal John Travolta's actual face.

— Alex Zalben (@azalben) September 9, 2019

Others are, well, not.

— pixelatedboat aka “mr tweets” (@pixelatedboat) September 9, 2019

Hollywood in 2019 will probably cast two basically identical Chrises in the new FACE/OFF.

— Amy Nicholson (@TheAmyNicholson) September 9, 2019