Nicolas Cage talks Bad Lieutenant
Nicolas Cage has been talking about his forthcoming remake of Bad Lieutenant and has promised that the re-imagining will be a vastly different film from Abel Ferrara's cult classic.
Speaking at a London press conference for his new movie Knowing (released today in cinemas), the actor said he was looking forward to working with director Werner Herzog and described the idea of reviving the Bad Lieutenant as "so audacious I couldn't resist".
He continued: "One of the things that Werner came out with was he felt that the movie would be kind of like a franchise, in that you could have more than one Bad Lieutenant; that this movie is not a remake, it's Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans. You could have Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call London next. It could happen and that's what makes it interesting. I'm not the same cop that Harvey was. I'm a different cop. I'm a New Orleans cop."
Cage, whose previous remake was the ill-fated Wicker Man update, added: "Bad Lieutenant, in my opinion, really was still very much in a Judea-Christian programme. I liked it. But Werner's Bad Lieutenant goes more into the existential point of view."
