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John Travolta is an American actor, producer, and singer.. Travolta in 1983. He first became well known in the 1970s, after appearing on the television series Welcome Back, Kotter (1975–1979) and starring in the box office successes Saturday Night Fever and Grease.
Face/Off is a 1997 American science fiction action comedy-thriller film [a] directed by John Woo, from a screenplay by Mike Werb and Michael Colleary.It stars John Travolta as an FBI agent and Nicolas Cage as a terrorist, who undergo an experimental surgery to swap their faces and identities.
Travolta originally saw himself in the role of Jonnie, but by the time the movie was actually made, Travolta felt he was too old to play the role, and took the role of the main villain instead. [51] Travolta's role in the film required what he described as an amazing physical transformation: "I wear a tall head apparatus with strange hair.
The film was met with critical acclaim and was a financial success, breaking the record for the highest-grossing opening weekend for a movie musical, [5] which the film held until July 2008 when it was surpassed by Mamma Mia! [6] and later High School Musical 3: Senior Year in October. [7]
Get Shorty is a 1995 American gangster comedy film directed by Barry Sonnenfeld and written by Scott Frank, based on Elmore Leonard's 1990 novel. [4] The film stars John Travolta, Gene Hackman, Rene Russo, Delroy Lindo, James Gandolfini, Dennis Farina, and Danny DeVito.
The film was a dream project for Travolta since the book's release in 1982, when Hubbard wrote to him to try to help make a film adaptation. [33] The film received almost universally negative reviews and did very poorly at the box office. [34] Travolta's performance in Battlefield Earth also earned him two Razzie Awards.
Saturday Night Fever is a 1977 American dance drama film directed by John Badham and produced by Robert Stigwood.It stars John Travolta as Tony Manero, a young Italian-American man who spends his weekends dancing and drinking at a local discothèque while dealing with social tensions and disillusionment in his working class ethnic neighborhood in Brooklyn.
In May 2023, it was announced that Travolta and Heigl were cast in the film and that Walken was in talks to co-star with them. [1] In November 2023, it was announced that Walken was cast along with Shire, Fichtner, Sweeney and de Matteo. [2] Production commenced in September 2022. [3] It lasted until November that same year. [4]