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
Jean-Luc Montminy in leading roles, including, for example, the voice-over for John Travolta in "Killing Season"—'"Face à Face"' in French. Montminy also lent his voice to 613 projects in which he did the voice-over for actors in secondary and other roles as well as animated films. He did the voice-over as Bruce WIllis in "A Good Day to Die Hard"'Une belle journée pour crever' in French. According to the official internet site for dubbing in Quebec, Montminy is the dubbing actor who has most often performed the voice-over for Bruce Willis both in films in which he is a featured actor and