Werner Herzog’s Bad Lieutenant. Trade Roughage 05/14/08

By Karina Longworth posted 4 months ago

You know how sometimes, things happen and you can’t really believe they’re happening, and you wonder if maybe you’re in a dream, or if maybe the universe folded in on itself and you got caught in some kind of warp in space and time that allows things to happen that wouldn’t be allowed on an ordinary plane? Um. Werner Herzog is remaking Abel Ferrara’s Bad Lieutenant. With Nicolas Cage in the Harvey Keitel role.
Tommy Lee Jones will “adapt, direct, produce and star” in a feature based on Ernest Hemmingway’s Islands in the Stream.
James Garner, who is 80, is said to be recovering from a stroke. He had surgery on Sunday and his publicist says it went “great.”

Matt said 4 months ago
Finally! The possibility of a Nic Cage performance even more ludicrous than VAMPIRE’S KISS! Oh how I have waited for this day.

You think I’m being sarcastic but I’m not. I’ll be first in line.
don said 4 months ago
it’s hemingway, with one m
Bad Lieutenant Remake: Abel Ferrara Says, ‘Don’t Count On It.’ (Flix99.com) said 4 months ago
[...] definitely emblematic of the Festival itself at this point. But! But! Ferrara twice talked about Werner Herzog’s alleged Nicolas Cage-starring remake of his Bad Lieutenant––once in response to a question from a reporter, and once just because he [...]
mr. mike said 4 months ago
actually nic cage’s performance in vampires kiss is amazingly good, uninhibited and daring. if there were any good filmmakers out there he’d probably wouldn’t have to be doing wicker man and looking so damn sad all the time. he’s a talented guy. thank god for herzog. roth and bale just seemed contrarian and perverse but this seems like inspired casting somehow. hope it happens