VOD With Cheese: What the Hell Happened to John Travolta’s Career?

And I bet he is making a lot of money doing straight to video.

I remember reading during his "lean" years of the late 80's/early90's, he as still making over $2,000,000 a movie (not bad in those days). John is doing well. Don't worry about him.

Plus VOD doesn't have the stigma it once did.

His son died in 09, just after he completed From Paris with Love. He then took 2 x years off to grieve.
That is what happened. When he finally returned he received zero offers. He was forgotten.
He was cast in Savages soly based on that Uma Thurman had signed on"urging" Stone to consider him. Ironically Uma Thurman part was cut in post production.

His biggest part in 10 years was American Crime Story. The rest, those VOD flicks he was paid scale.

A lot of it has to do with his age. There just aren't that many major roles for someone who's old enough for social security.

A lot of actors see their careers go downhill as they get into their 50s and beyond, and end up in low budget productions if they want to keep working. Either that or they end up taking fewer parts or retire completely.

He makes godawful choices. He walks into any old role, mostly comes out smelling of crap, occasionally smelling of roses with a decent director who can give him the guidance he so badly needs and it revives his career because he does have charisma and talent but cannot channel it well himself.

He doesn't have much say in the matter. He has to make the movies that Zorpdurk the Unflappable instructs him to make. It's all part of an intricate cosmic chess match against Xenu and his minions. Besides, Travolta doesn't need money, his reward is an increase in Thetan levels from the galactic core.

It is a myth that John Travolta had a "comeback" and is on the downturn.

Since the very beginning of his career, Travolta has consistently accepted whatever comes his way, no matter what the quality. It's just that every once in awhile, he would come across the right project and hit gold. But instead of being more selective when he had a hit, he would just go back to accepting any job.

So, what's happened to Travolta's career is what happened to his career after Saturday Night Fever, after Look Who's Talking, after Pulp Fiction. Instead of sitting a good script, he's just accepting crap (as usual). Making matters worse is that the talent pool in Hollywood is so small that it's highly unlikely he'll come across another script on the level of a Pulp Fiction or SNF, or a commercially successful franchise in the vein of Look Who's Talking.