Nicholas Cage as Bad Lieutenant in remake
 

May 14, 2008


Nicolas Cage and Werner Herzog are teaming up for a re-make of Abel Ferrera's violent 1992 classic Bad Lieutenant, it was announced in Cannes today.

Cage will play the Harvey Keitel role - a twisted New York police officer with drug, gambling and sex issues who eventually finds redemption.

According to Variety, the update is penned by Billy Finkelstein - no stranger to Gotham-set drama with the likes of Murder One and NYPD Blue on his CV.

Herzog - currently in the south of France with his doc Encounters at the End of the World - earned strong reviews for his previous film Rescue Dawn, and has a string of masterpieces to his credit, including Aguirre, Wrath of God and Fitzcarraldo.

And once again - WHY?

Yeah why would they remake a movie from the 90s already?

Odd....

Weirdly surreal...

I bet Herzog will shoot Cage during production and it'll never be completed.

It won't be as raw and powerful as the original I'm sure. As much as I like Cage as an actor there's no way in hell I think he'll be able to pull this one off. Keitel was so strong and vicious while being so vulnerable and sad... it was an amazing performance.

Agreed...I like Cage (in a limited way) but there is no way he produce a fraction of what Keital did during that film..

Even if you don't like the original u gotta appreciate an actor throwing himself into the role like that.

i'll watch anything Herzog makes.

Was the last one in the Jungle any good? I might get around to watching it. Herzog is indeed an interesting director.

i think this just means that Bad Lieutenant is officially as good as Nosferatu.

Only if Klaus Kinski playes the Zoë Lund character and they fit Chri Walken in some where. And Daren Strawberry is replaced by David Beckem.

i think he did both a docu. and a dramatization - i havent seen either yet.

When i heard about it i was interested cos u just know he starved Christian Bale in the jungle for real to make it authentic.

I saw the trailer and i was a bit uninterested..

yup, really good.

Bale and Zahn are great.

I have to agree Rescue Dawn was amazing.

I must check it out then.

July 2, 2008


Val Kilmer and Xzibit have joined Nicolas Cage and Eva Mendes in "Bad Lieutenant," the Werner Herzog-directed remake of the 1992 Abel Ferrara cult hit.

Nu Image/Millennium Films is financing.

Cage plays a cop on the edge, and Kilmer will play his partner. Xzibit is playing a nemesis named Big Fade, in a re-imagining of the film.

Edward R. Pressman is producing with Alan and Gabe Polsky, Stephen Belafonte, Emmett/Furla's Randall Emmett and Cage's Saturn Films.

William Finkelstein wrote the script. Avi Lerner, Danny Dimbort, Trevor Short, Boaz Davidson, Elliot Rosenblatt and Alessandro Camon are exec producers.

Kilmer recently completed "Streets of Blood" while Xzibit (Alvin Joiner) will next be seen in the Fox release "X Files: I Want to Believe."

Noway!
Again I like Cage but he just doesn't suit this part.
If he can remotely pull this off I will be impressed but I don't see it.
There is no need for a remake, the original was brilliant.
Will view it because its cage and because I did like the original but I know I will be disappointed.