It’s hard to believe that it’s been almost 15 years (!) since John Woo’s FACE/OFF came out. It’s a great movie and in addition to its terrific action sequences it provides its two lead actors with ample opportunity to do what they do best: overact brilliantly. Nic Cage and John Travolta are like hurricanes in that flick, and both chew up whatever is left of the scenery after it’s been riddled with bullets.
Now it’s looking like the two are about to re-team. According to Vulture, the thespians are angling to collaborate on not one but two potential vehicles: The first is SHRAPNEL, which is a revenge thriller about a former Bosnian soldier who seeks vengeance against the American who badly wounded him by disguising a deadly war game as a friendly backwoods hunting trip.
Who the hell would be playing the Bosnian? I don’t know, but I can’t wait to see that performance.
The second project sounds even more intriguing. Titled SEA TRIAL, it’s based on a book by Frank De Delitta; here’s the synopsis:
Tracey and Phil are lovers. They have planned a romantic cruise as the perfect ending to a perfect affair. But the Penny Dreadful, the yacht on which they have chosen to sail, was never intended for pleasure. Nor are Catain and Mrs McCracken the pleasant, middle-aged couple they seem./font>
Soon the accidents begin: a series of accidents. And then the chores and deprivations in an ever-tihtening chain of punishments and hardships. It is as though they have embareked on a passage through fire, a cruise through hell.
Tracey Hansen and Philip Sobel are about to be initiated into the rites and ways of evil.
SHRAPNEL at one time had DIE HARD director John McTiernan attached to it, but his legal woes might prevent that from happening (dude is about to go to jail for perjury). SEA TRIAL is in the process of gathering financing; hopefully it gets its act together soon, because there are few things I want to see in this world more than John Travolta and Nicolas Cage battling it out on a boat.
FACE/OFF’s Dominique Swain
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