The stark, disturbing 1992 film “Bad Lieutenant” is getting a reboot.
The original, directed by Abel Ferrara, focused on a cop teetering on the edge. OK, the film’s star, Harvey Keitel, didn’t so much teeter as fall off said edge.
Keitel got a jump on the whole frontal male nudity thing before those Judd Apatow films took a crack at it.
Now, Nicolas Cage takes over in the Werner Herzog remake “Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans.” The movie will be featured during the upcoming Starz Denver Film Festival and will be released in select cities Nov. 20 (NY, LA, San Francisco, Chicago and DC).
The new film casts Cage as a high functioning drug addict who still manages to stay completely devoted to his job. The lovely Eva Mendes co-stars as a prostitute Cage’s character romances.
Check out these two peeks at the latest Cage project, which allegedly lets him chew scenery as only he can.
(Photo: Nicolas Cage, right, stars as a drug addled cop in “Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans.”)
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Color me intrigued. I know most remakes (or re-imaginings, or whatever this is) are disappointments, but I’m actually looking forward to this one. Herzog’s films are always intriguing, Cage can be good in the right role, and the premise of the first film actually seems like something that could be grafted onto a different setting and still make it work.
And if nothing else, the trailer doesn’t look boring.
I scanned the Post’s rundown of Starz last weekend, but wasn’t really inspired. Call me cheap, but each year it seems that I would be spending bucks and time just to get insulted or watch my country get kicked in the groin.
Not much fun. Do you usually hang out at Starz? Might be worth it to hear what you have to say or decompress after a screening that’s worthy (do they exist? Is Bad Lieutenant one of them?)
Wouldn’t it be great if Cage reclaimed his mojo?
Ronco … this will be my second Starz Festival … so I’m a newbie. I will say the sleepers chosen to flesh out last year’s festival were terrific.