Weirdest movie news of the week…

Updated on May 15, 2008 By Ken Begg 7 Comments

(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.’

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  • BeckoningChasm

    Even at his weirdest, Herzog tends to make pretty watchable movies. But Nicholas Cage? Sheesh, the most unexciting actor ever.

  • simbo

    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.

  • sardu

    And Wild At Heart. Nic was the weird indy poster boy; the male Parker Posey until he did Con Air.

  • John Nowak

    Oh, yeah; I really need to put Ghost Rider on my Netflix queue.

  • Flickflack

    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.

  • Jimmy

    I just pray Cage keeps his pants on.