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
John Travolta Wannabe in South Korea with over 4,077,885 downloads. Both albums charted on the Gaon Yearly 2011 Album chart, with "John Travolta Wannabe" selling 30,116 copies and the repackage "Roly Poly in Copacabana" sold 24,179 copies. On August 1, Core Contents Media announced that a repackage of "John Travolta Wannabe" would be titled "Roly-Poly in Copacabana" and limited to only 10,000 copies. The repackage contains one new song, a Eurodance remix of "Roly-Poly" titled "Roly-Poly in Copacabana", which was named after the famous 1980s disco club. The song premiered on August 2 while the music video was delayed until the next day.