Nicolas Cage is Werner Herzog’s BAD LIEU...
Nicolas Cage is Werner Herzog’s BAD LIEUTENANT
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Werner Herzog, the genius German director who doesn’t so much grow with every movie he makes but instead sticks to the incredibly high level he set himself to some decades ago and never seems to have a dip in form.
He is Mr. Consistent. He puts out nothing less than a four star movie each and every time he picks up the camera.
BUT, having said that… he is giving himself a challenge here
The word has leaked from Variety that Herzog will remake the 1992 thriller Bad Lieutenant - a no-holds barred NC-17 movie (looks a little Taxi Driver-ish) made at the height of a resurgence in the career of it’s lead Harvey Keitel shortly after Reservoir Dogs and before his Academy Award friendly turn in The Piano.
Herzog will be remaking the movie with Nicolas Cage and production will begin in the summer…
Edward R. Pressman producing and Avi Lerner’s Nu Image/Millenium Films financing.
The original film, also produced by Pressman, starred Harvey Keitel and was directed by Abel Ferrara from a screenplay by Ferrara and Zoe Lund. That film received an NC-17 rating with the depraved title character heavily involved in drugs, gambling, sex and stealing while a New York police officer.
The new script’s written by Billy Finkelstein, a TV writer with credits on “Murder One,” “Law & Order” and “NYPD Blue.”
He is Mr. Consistent. He puts out nothing less than a four star movie each and every time he picks up the camera.
BUT, having said that… he is giving himself a challenge here
The word has leaked from Variety that Herzog will remake the 1992 thriller Bad Lieutenant - a no-holds barred NC-17 movie (looks a little Taxi Driver-ish) made at the height of a resurgence in the career of it’s lead Harvey Keitel shortly after Reservoir Dogs and before his Academy Award friendly turn in The Piano.
Herzog will be remaking the movie with Nicolas Cage and production will begin in the summer…
Edward R. Pressman producing and Avi Lerner’s Nu Image/Millenium Films financing.
The original film, also produced by Pressman, starred Harvey Keitel and was directed by Abel Ferrara from a screenplay by Ferrara and Zoe Lund. That film received an NC-17 rating with the depraved title character heavily involved in drugs, gambling, sex and stealing while a New York police officer.
The new script’s written by Billy Finkelstein, a TV writer with credits on “Murder One,” “Law & Order” and “NYPD Blue.”
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