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Tuesday, May 13, 2008
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In the WTF! department comes this story just posted by Dave McNary at Variety: Werner Herzog will direct this summer a remake of Abel Ferrara's Bad Lieutenant starring Nicolas Cage.

Really, that's what it says. You can click over there and confirm it. And as the picture to the left notes, this is the first Filmmaker cover film to be remade. (What's next? Suture? 24-Hour Woman? Twin Falls, Idaho?)

Ed Pressman is producing and Avi Lerner's Nu Image/Millenium is financing. The script is by Billy Finkelstein.

Bad Lieutenant is one of my all time favorite independent films, and it's going to be hard to top the combined contributions of Ferrara, screenwriter Zoe Lund, and Harvey Keitel. Herzog's involvement, however, makes it hard to write this one off.

We'll have to see post Cannes if this project materializes or whether it's just speculative bait for foreign buyers.


# posted by Scott Macaulay @ 5/13/2008 06:07:00 PM
Comments (4)

 
They convinced Herzog by telling him: The city is a concrete jungle!
# posted by Anonymous Anonymous @ 5/13/2008 9:23 PM  

 
I'm right there with you Scott. What can you say? They have soiled the sanctity of this film and that, let me tell you, is a hard task.

Cage's involvement. Yeah, yeah. I get it. Hollywood star has to get down and dirty to prove that he can still go there. Really? Wanna go there? Top HK's "scene."

Herzog kind of throws me for a loop though.
# posted by Blogger William @ 5/14/2008 6:35 AM  

 
Harmony Korine should remake Driller Killer.

I'm not kidding.
# posted by Blogger Wiley @ 5/14/2008 2:49 PM  

 
Actually, thinking about this story I just remembered the lengthy clip of Herzog from "Burden of Dreams" that is contained in "Snake Eyes," one of Abel's most underrated films. So I guess there is some sense of kinship between them.
# posted by Blogger Scott Macaulay @ 5/14/2008 2:59 PM  

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