Buena Vista International owned the overseas rights through their distribution deal with Cinergi. As part of the Disney/Fox merger, The Walt Disney Company also has complete ownership of this film as well as the rest of the Die Hard series.
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Nicolas Cage and Chris Bauer also went on to star together in 8MM (1999).
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Music composer John Powell is one of the pupils of Hans Zimmer who produced the music to the movie.
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Joan Allen played John Travolta's wife. In Pleasantville (1998), she played William H. Macy's. Travolta and Macy would go on to star together in Wild Hogs (2007).
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John Travolta's fingers are bigger than Nicolas Cage's, so it was hard to get the wedding ring off but easy to slip on.
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The studio wanted Archer and Sasha to sleep together, but the writers and John Woo argued against it.
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It was released in June 1997, the same month as Nicolas Cage's other action hit Con Air (1997), which came out a few weeks earlier. The films were shot consecutively, from the summer of 1996 to spring 1997, with the two productions nearly overlapping at one point.
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Mark Wahlberg turned down the role of Pollux Troy.
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Nicolas Cage is a big fan of Chow Yun-Fat. John Woo originally asked Cage to decide on the make-up for the beginning of the film (where Troy is going to kill Archer). Cage decided to don a moustache, similar to the famous assassination scene in The Killer (1989).
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The original script was mostly set in the prison. The writers called it "Birdman of Alcatraz in the future." In it, some prisoners hung upside down from the ceiling by their boots with IVs collecting bodily fluids.
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The studio pitched for an African-American lead in face-off, but John Woo didn't think that was a good idea. Seeing as Nicholas Cage was white, his black face may have given Troy's criminals a second thought as to his true identity.
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Originally, Nicolas Cage turned down the role of Castor Troy, citing a lack of interest in playing a villain. However, once he was told that he would actually be playing the hero for a majority of the film, he quickly signed on.
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Sean Archer chokes Castor Troy in the same manner that he previously choked Dietrich.
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The jump was 70 feet. They called in a stuntman who specialized in high dives.
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The stuntmen were lifted up by wires for one shot. The actors' faces were digitally added in.
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When Dubov is attacked by the guards at the prison, he dodges behind a box marked "Ingen". That's the company that cloned dinosaurs in Jurassic Park (1993). "Ingen" also means "no one" in Danish, Norwegian and Swedish.
Face/Off - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts
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