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Old 05-15-2008, 07:23 AM
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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.
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Yeah why would they remake a movie from the 90s already?

Odd....
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Weirdly surreal...

I bet Herzog will shoot Cage during production and it'll never be completed.
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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.
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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.
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i'll watch anything Herzog makes.
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Was the last one in the Jungle any good? I might get around to watching it. Herzog is indeed an interesting director.
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i think this just means that Bad Lieutenant is officially as good as Nosferatu.
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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.
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