Thought I'd slipped through time, and had gone back to April 1st. BUT IT'S NO JOKE.
Nic Cage to star in 'Bad Lieutenant' Werner Herzog directing updated version of filmBy DAVE MCNARY, PAMELA MCCLINTOCK
Nicolas Cage will star in an updated version of 1992's "Bad Lieutenant" with Werner Herzog directing, Edward R. Pressman producing and Avi Lerner's Nu Image/Millennium Films financing.
Project, also called "Bad Lieutenant," is due to be announced at Cannes. Production will start in late summer.
The original pic, produced by Pressman, starred Harvey Keitel and was directed by Abel Ferrara from a screenplay by Ferrara and Zoe Lund.
Story followed the depraved New York police officer of the title, who was heavily involved in drugs, gambling, sex and stealing; the pic received an NC-17 rating.
The new script's penned by Billy Finkelstein, a TV writer with credits on "Murder One," "Law & Order" and "NYPD Blue." Stephen Belafonte, who brought Finkelstein to the project, is also producing, while development was financed by producers Alan and Gabe Polsky.
Along with Lerner, Nu Image/Millennium's Danny Dimbort, Trevor Short and Boaz Davidson will exec produce with Elliot Rosenblatt and Alessandro Camon. Randall Emmett and Cage's Saturn Films are also producing.
Cage is filming "Knowing" in Australia for director Alex Proyas. Herzog's expected to follow "Bad Lieutenant" with Focus' "The Piano Tuner" late this year.
I dunno... it's totally crazy - crazy enough to work? Who knows? Checking out the video above (DEFINITELY NOT WORK SAFE), and trying to picture Nic Cage in the role...
Maybe they can hire Schooly-D to do a rap about bees. This could be a total train wreck or the mind roasting film of the year.
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Here's another question... could it possibly be ANY WORSE than the Cage remake of 'Wicker Man'? At first thought you'd probably scream, "No! No! No!" The only possible saving grace here is Herzog. He's engineered some rubber necking train wrecks in his, but usually, just like real train wrecks, they're worth a look. Still, Cage? I'd rather have Paul Reubens.
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