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Wednesday, May 14, 2008

Bizarre Remake of the Day

posted by on May 14 at 10:09 AM

I don’t quite know what to make of this:

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.

Werner Herzog? Really?

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1

My favorite line from the movie: "I'll put you in the back of my squad car and you can show me how you suck your boyfriend's cack."

Posted by Sussio | May 14, 2008 10:32 AM
2

there's a need for a remake of THAT movie? that movie SUCKED.

Posted by max solomon | May 14, 2008 10:39 AM
3

NOT THE BEES!!!!

Posted by Breklor | May 14, 2008 10:40 AM
4

harvey keitel nailed that role, nick cage cant do much with it unless of course herzog sets it in the heroin wastelands of frankfurt and munich.

herzog should redo christiane f instead of this one.

Posted by SeMe | May 14, 2008 10:45 AM
5

Bunch of savages in that town.

In this case that town is Hollywood.

Cage needs to stick with Ghost Rider sequels, obviously.

Herzog needs to stick with documentaries about wackos-eaten-by-bears, obviously.

Bad Lieutenant needs to be in your netflix queue if you've not seen it. Obviously.

Posted by your boyfriend's cack | May 14, 2008 10:57 AM
6

Ooohhhhh yah! max solomon displays his great taste in film...

Better to listen to your boyfriend's cack. Obviously.

Posted by KeeKee | May 14, 2008 11:15 AM
7

I agree with @4, I doubt Cage can touch Keitel's performance/type casting. Maybe if Herzog recast setting of the movie as the Army, or politics, with some older actor not associated with playing the bad guy.

Posted by former editor | May 14, 2008 11:27 AM
8

Irrespective of Harvey Keitel's tour de force in Bad Lieutenant, the film was a romp through the mind of a man breaking down. We see it before our eyes. It was sad and chilling.

Having Nick Cage in the role may take me - along with the film's protagonist - over the edge. It'll turn a stark and hopeless story into a merely depressing one.

Posted by Bauhaus | May 14, 2008 11:28 AM
9

Um...what? I...what? How much coke do you need to do to think that's a good idea?

Speaking of remakes with Nicolas Cage:

His next release is a remake of the Pang Bros' Bangkok Dangerous. (The remake was directed by the Pang Bros. but the script has been massaged by a Hollywood writer.) The original was a story about a profoundly deaf-mute hitman.

In the new version, he's not deaf-mute (because apparently audiences would be angry about seeing a Nic Cage movie in which Nic doesn't talk, or something). So they've remade a movie about a deaf-mute hitman, without a deaf-mute hitman in it. (His girlfriend is now the deaf-mute character, but really, what's the point?)

Hollywood's capacity for absolute absurdity is unlimited.

Posted by stresskitten | May 14, 2008 11:48 AM
10

the prob with nick cage is that he is hit and miss, he can play one of the best drunks on film like he did in Leaving las Vegas or he could be a bofoon like in con air and countless others.

keitel, on the other had, has only missed with the Piano and his hideous kiwi accent ( 4 keys!)

the only other person who could nail bad liutenant is treat williams from prince of the city.

as far as someone saying herzog should only do documentaries, i disagree, any man who can do aguirre wrath of god can keep making as many films as he wishes.

Posted by SeMe | May 14, 2008 11:57 AM
11

This hurts my feelings.

Posted by KELLY O | May 14, 2008 12:07 PM
12

I honestly cannot see anyone other than Kietel in this role. I own a DVD copy of this and bust it out every 6 months or so...it never gets old.

"We did it before, and we can do it again!
We can do it again!
We can do it again!"

(from the cartoon the kids are watching in the flick, sticks in my head something awful)

Posted by Gabe | May 14, 2008 12:48 PM
13

will he show us his willie ?
ummm nick cage's. not herzog's

Posted by reverend dr dj riz | May 14, 2008 1:09 PM
14

@6: it is possible to think that Keitel was good, even great inhabiting the role, but that Bad Lieutenant was not a good film. Kinda like how Brad Pitt was good in Snatch, but Snatch wasn't good.

De Gustibus Non Disputadem.

Posted by max solomon | May 14, 2008 2:10 PM
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I'm with 14. Was impressed by Keitel in this role, but the movie overall, eh.

Aren't there tens of thousands of scripts running loose in Hollywood? Why do they keep dredging up every bit of TV nostaglia and make a movie out of it? And make remakes of things that... oh, bother.

Posted by CP | May 15, 2008 8:18 PM

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