The 'Face/Off' sequel is much delayed.The follow-up to the 1997 action blockbuster starring Nicolas Cage and John Travolta has been heavily impacted by last year's writer's strike.The flick's co-writer Adam Wingard told io9: "Almost in the middle of production [on Godzilla x Kong], we were finishing our draft of the script and because both of us were too busy working on other things there was a plan to do a rewrite, and we picked a writer to work on it."And then the writers' strike happened so that delayed things. Right now, that's still inactive, so I think the plan with that one will be that writer will continue working, and whenever that draft is done, Simon [Barrett, co-writer] and I will get it back and we'll take another crack at it."The sci-fi action thriller saw Travolta play FBI agent Sean Archer and Cage terrorist Castor Troy.
- 3/25/2024
- by Lizzie Baker
- Bang Showbiz
The new episode of Chicago Med brought back Dr. Margo Collins.
A party was being held to celebrate Sean Archer (played by Luigi Sottile) reaching one year of sobriety.
Dr. Collins was there to help Sean, his father, Dean, and friends from the hospital celebrate the milestone.
This is the second episode that Dr. Collins has appeared in.
She was also in Chicago Med Season 9, Episode 5, introducing herself as the head of a clinic where Sean now works.
It might be amusing to some Chicago Med fans to learn that this is the third episode for the actress, as she played a different character a few years back.
Who plays Dr. Margo Collins on the Chicago Med cast?
Actress Beth Lacke guest-starred in the new episode, reprising her role as Dr. Margo Collins.
She first appeared on the show during Chicago Med Season 3, Episode 2 as Ms. Lake. It was a much different character,...
A party was being held to celebrate Sean Archer (played by Luigi Sottile) reaching one year of sobriety.
Dr. Collins was there to help Sean, his father, Dean, and friends from the hospital celebrate the milestone.
This is the second episode that Dr. Collins has appeared in.
She was also in Chicago Med Season 9, Episode 5, introducing herself as the head of a clinic where Sean now works.
It might be amusing to some Chicago Med fans to learn that this is the third episode for the actress, as she played a different character a few years back.
Who plays Dr. Margo Collins on the Chicago Med cast?
Actress Beth Lacke guest-starred in the new episode, reprising her role as Dr. Margo Collins.
She first appeared on the show during Chicago Med Season 3, Episode 2 as Ms. Lake. It was a much different character,...
- 3/21/2024
- by Ryan DeVault
- Monsters and Critics
Let's be blunt: The current state of action cinema worldwide would not be what it is today without the work of director John Woo. While Woo is hardly the only influential filmmaker when it comes to action movies, he's undeniably one of the biggest figures in shaping the genre. Like any great auteur, Woo's style was developed film by film, working his way through his kung-fu features at Golden Harvest in Hong Kong and adding in more experimental techniques (gleaned from the likes of prior filmmakers such as Sam Peckinpah) until he ended up at his signature magnum opus, 1986's "A Better Tomorrow" and its style, which was dubbed "heroic bloodshed."
Over the next several years in Hong Kong and then through to his transition into Hollywood, Woo expanded his "heroic bloodshed" style, peppering in other influences along the way from some of his other favorite filmmakers like Jean-Pierre Melville and Alfred Hitchcock.
Over the next several years in Hong Kong and then through to his transition into Hollywood, Woo expanded his "heroic bloodshed" style, peppering in other influences along the way from some of his other favorite filmmakers like Jean-Pierre Melville and Alfred Hitchcock.
- 12/2/2023
- by Bill Bria
- Slash Film
From The Killer’s church shootout to Mission: Impossible 2’s motorcycle chase, John Woo’s over-the-top action style has been the stuff of legend for many decades, but now, at 77, the Hong Kong filmmaker has changed up his approach, beginning with the virtually dialogue-free revenge thriller Silent Night.
The Joel Kinnaman-led actioner is Woo’s first American film in two decades, an absence he chalks up to no longer being sent quality scripts. On its surface, Silent Night is a classic tale of vengeance, as Kinnaman’s Brian Godlock stops at nothing to avenge the gang-related death of his 7-year-old son. The quest is made all the more intriguing by Godlock’s inability to speak, having suffered a life-altering injury during his failed attempt to go after the offending gang in the immediate aftermath of his son’s death.
Silent Night moviegoers are undoubtedly going to enjoy plenty of Woo-directed mayhem,...
The Joel Kinnaman-led actioner is Woo’s first American film in two decades, an absence he chalks up to no longer being sent quality scripts. On its surface, Silent Night is a classic tale of vengeance, as Kinnaman’s Brian Godlock stops at nothing to avenge the gang-related death of his 7-year-old son. The quest is made all the more intriguing by Godlock’s inability to speak, having suffered a life-altering injury during his failed attempt to go after the offending gang in the immediate aftermath of his son’s death.
Silent Night moviegoers are undoubtedly going to enjoy plenty of Woo-directed mayhem,...
- 12/1/2023
- by Brian Davids
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
John Woo couldn’t miss.
The godfather of gun fu, who helmed a number of balletic, bullet-riddled Chinese actions hits — A Better Tomorrow, The Killer, and Hard Boiled among them — before taking his talents to the States, was coming off four consecutive Hollywood smashes. First came the Jean-Claude Van Damme vehicle Hard Target, a play on The Most Dangerous Game; then, John Travolta-starrer Broken Arrow, about a rogue terrorist armed with a nuclear bomb; the face-swapping flick Face/Off, pairing a very game Travolta with an even more game Nicolas...
The godfather of gun fu, who helmed a number of balletic, bullet-riddled Chinese actions hits — A Better Tomorrow, The Killer, and Hard Boiled among them — before taking his talents to the States, was coming off four consecutive Hollywood smashes. First came the Jean-Claude Van Damme vehicle Hard Target, a play on The Most Dangerous Game; then, John Travolta-starrer Broken Arrow, about a rogue terrorist armed with a nuclear bomb; the face-swapping flick Face/Off, pairing a very game Travolta with an even more game Nicolas...
- 12/1/2023
- by Marlow Stern
- Rollingstone.com
If John Woo has ever heard the phrase ‘less is more’, this wonderfully insane 1997 film about two men stealing each other’s faces suggests he never took it to heart
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It’s beginning to feel a lot like Christmas: legendary Hong Kong director John Woo has a new film coming out in December – Silent Night – and any movie from the Goat of action flicks is a real gift. So why not revisit the movie that is arguably the most popular, and inarguably the most bonkers, of his career?
Face/Off sees John Travolta as FBI agent Sean Archer, who is tracking the notorious terrorist Castor Troy, played by Nicolas Cage. But when Troy tries to kill him and kills Archer’s son instead, Archer becomes consumed by revenge. Six years later, he catches up to Castor and in the ensuing chaos puts him in a coma.
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It’s beginning to feel a lot like Christmas: legendary Hong Kong director John Woo has a new film coming out in December – Silent Night – and any movie from the Goat of action flicks is a real gift. So why not revisit the movie that is arguably the most popular, and inarguably the most bonkers, of his career?
Face/Off sees John Travolta as FBI agent Sean Archer, who is tracking the notorious terrorist Castor Troy, played by Nicolas Cage. But when Troy tries to kill him and kills Archer’s son instead, Archer becomes consumed by revenge. Six years later, he catches up to Castor and in the ensuing chaos puts him in a coma.
- 11/28/2023
- by Adam Fleet
- The Guardian - Film News
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