Nicholas Cage and John Travolta have followed in similar footsteps: a lot of low budget or direct-to-streaming movies. A lot of them have been panned, but I like most of them, TBH. Cage has chosen better projects than Travolta, IMO. He's still very topical and popular. Travolta is, too, but not as much as Cage. People look forward to Cage's movies. He has Renfield coming up, where he'll play Dracula, and there was a lot of buzz about The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent. He's had movies that were critically praised recently, like Mandy, Pig, and Color Out of Space. He's often the subject of humor, in a good way, for the zany characters he's brought to the screen over the years, almost like a pop culture icon. He's also talked about in superhero circles a lot, jokingly, for his infamous Superman Lives movie that never saw the light of day, but people liked his Ghost Rider.
Travolta hasn't aged as well, with massive bombs like The Fanatic, The Poison Rose, and Gotti. Some of his campier flicks, like Speed Kills, were admittedly bad, but in a good way. I Am Wrath was filmed in my hometown, Columbus, Ohio, and was, again, kind of cheesy, but in a good way. lol A lot of people want Cage and Travolta to reunite for Face/Off 2, but I think it's a bad idea. That was a concept, back then, that required such a suspension of disbelief that it's surprising it became a movie that's remembered fondly; best to just leave it alone, IMO. Cage was talking about his idea for a sequel recently and it sounded even crazier, where it's about the sons or daughters of the original characters, and how they also engage in the "face/off" game like their parents did. It's assumed that the original characters will also return somehow — Cage and Travolta.
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