WHYYYYYYY...this can't be a good idea!


Nicolas Cage to star in 'Bad Lieutenant'
Werner Herzog to helm the remake of the 1992 cult classic
By Gregg Goldstein

May 13, 2008, 04:59 PM

Updated: May 13, 2008, 05:23 PM

CANNES -- Nicolas Cage will star in Werner Herzog's remake of the 1992 cult classic "Bad Lieutenant" for financier Nu Image / Millennium Films.

Pressman Film Corp. will produce the new version of its original Abel Ferrara NC-17 film about a drug- and sex-addicted corrupt cop. Cage takes the role originated by Harvey Keitel, with TV police show writer Billy Finkelstein scripting. Production begins in July, with exec producer Avi Lerner promising it will deliver as much filth as the original.

Ed Pressman and Stephen Belafonte will produce. Nu Image/Millennium's Danny Dimbort, Lerner, Trevor Short and Boaz Davidson will executive producer with Elliot Rosenblatt, Alessandro Camon and Randall Emmet.

Herzog, who follows up the film with Focus Features' "The Piano Tuner" later this year, is repped by Gersh. Cage, whose Saturn Films is also producing, is repped by CAA.

I was wondering whose birthday this was for.

I can understand producers, money-men and studio execs wanting to make this happen, but come on, Cage! You know better than to fuck with a classic. I hope Keitel breaks both your legs.

There should be some sort of 30-year moratorium on remakes. Only after the original has been released for three decades would remakes be allowed. It is completely ridiculous to be remaking a movie from THE NINETIES.

"Fuck you, fuckball!!"

this thread reminds me that Keitel hasn't done anything worthwhile in over a decade

He's been in quite a few movies (of course he has, the dude works), but the last thing I personally saw him in was Cop Land---just over a decade ago.

scrolled down without looking....bad lieutenant thread?

yes it is.

strange

I really just don't care to see Nic Cage's cock...

the only way this would be interesting is if Cage decides to method act as Harvey Keitel was (allegedly)

I was just going to say this.
No fucking reason to remake this movie.

This is going to fucking suck. They're obviously going to tone it down a lot.

One of the first films I bought on DVD. Still an amazing film, and no way that they can even come close.

And why is Werner Herzog, of all people, going to do this?

Although it's been years since I've seen it, I seem to recall really disliking this film.

thats what I was wondering. wtf werner?

yeah.

Pretty odd.

dude needs to get the fuck out of hollywood and head back to germany. he's probably one of my favorite directors, but between this and rescue dawn, i'm shaking my head.

See: The Wicker Man... Cage Has Few Morals..

Didn't mind "Rescue Dawn", but Hertzog prefaced that movie as being "A Work of Fiction which would cover the territory which my Documentary couldn't cover"...

Bad Lieutenant? What story-enhancing ground can you cover, especially with Nic Cage?????

So, you're not going to drag your kids to see The Incredible Hulk, huh?

(Granted, not definitively a remake, but Hulk was just out in '03 (which is even more recently than I remembered; I thought it was '99 or '00).)

(& all the comix geeks, here, none of the "this is a corrective measure [by Marvel]" bullshit. For people that otherwise don't buy the "company line", espousing borderline "libertarian" clap-trap, I don't want you to start parrotting "the man", now. When it's convenient.)

so, by your logic, spider-man, the fantastic four, the punisher, captain america, nick fury, dr. strange, superman and batman all fall under this.

After giveing some thought to Nic Cage's recent wok, the thread delivers, I actually feel better about my career.
I did like the gunrunner movie

Nick Cage was great in Adaptation