(Well, except that the upcoming Sex and the City movie is two and a half hours longs. That’s a lot of [insert brand name of very expensive, fashionable shoes which I have never heard of].)
Reports indicate that German auteur Werner Herzog is set to direct a remake of the 1992 Abel Ferrara/Harvey Keitel movie Bad Lieutenant, the new version to star Nicolas Cage.
Man, nothing about that sentence doesn’t scream ‘immense commercial success.’
Even at his weirdest, Herzog tends to make pretty watchable movies. But Nicholas Cage? Sheesh, the most unexciting actor ever.
I think you have to remember Nick Cage did start with films like “Vampires Kiss” and “Raising Arizona”. So he is capable of bringing the nutty-overacting, if the film should require it. It’s just that, well, most of his recent stuff has been more of the paycheque variety.
And Wild At Heart. Nic was the weird indy poster boy; the male Parker Posey until he did Con Air.
Oh, yeah; I really need to put Ghost Rider on my Netflix queue.
I seem to recall a Trib bio about Cage where he talked about wanting to have a different name to use on his weird indie-esque movies (I think this was written around the time 8mm came out). Maybe he’s hoping to resume that concept.
But still… I just can’t see Cage keening in front of the giant crucifix like Keitel did. He’s more bug-eyed crazy than wailing-with-inner-torture like Harvey.
I don’t particularly like Nicolas Cage, but I think what we need to remember is that it’s going to be a Werner Herzog film. Werner ‘Let’s repeatedly work with Klaus Kinski’ Herzog. Werner ‘Let’s make a film with an all-midget cast’ Herzog. Werner ‘Let’s drag a steamboat up a hill’ Herzog.
In other words, all bets are off. Whatever happens, the director’s going to be more memorable than the cast.
I just pray Cage keeps his pants on.