Face/Off Werb and Michael Colleary tried to sell to a studio from as early as 1990. The first actors who were chosen to play Sean Archer and Castor Troy were Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger respectively but John Woo instead hired John Travolta and Nicolas Cage to play those characters. It took numerous studios, producers and rewrites before John Woo became attached several years later. For the Archer character, Woo considered casting either Michael Douglas or Jean-Claude Van Damme with whom he had worked in "Hard Target". When the film was eventually made, Douglas served as an executive producer. Werb and
Movie... In Your Face Movie... In Your Face Movie... In Your Face is a 1990 comedy film, mostly consisting of a redubbed Hong Kong movie. In the style of movies like "What's Up, Tiger Lily?", this movie was "produced" by replacing the original sound track of a 1984 Hong Kong movie — "Ma hou pao" or "Crazy Kung Fu Master" — with an English language sound track written to make the movie into a feature-length farce. Stand-up comic Tommy Sledge narrates the movie in his usual "hard-boiled detective" persona. A group of Japanese gangsters overrun a movie studio to decide whether or not they