Who out there wants to see a film starring Xzibit, Val Kilmer, Nicholas Cage and Eva Mendes?
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Anyone?? How about if I told you that it will be the remake of a cult film from the ’90s?
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Alright, alright. But what’s your reaction when you hear that the film — a remake of Abel Ferrera’s Bad Lieutenant from 1992 — will be directed by celebrated German filmmaker Werner Herzog? If you’re at all like us, it’s bewildered curiosity.
Herzog is much-loved here at Criticker HQ, thanks in large part to his penchant for strange material. He’s mainly been making documentaries for years now, which makes his decision to remake a 16-year old cop film intriguing. And with Bad Lieutenant, he seems to be willfully assembling the most annoying cast possible. Perhaps he just wants to enrage fans of the original, and then film their reactions for an ironic making-of? What are you playing at, Werner?
Anyway, we’re interested. I’ll even type a sentence, which I had previously assumed my mind unable to construct: “I can’t wait for that new Xzibit film”. There. It’s on record.
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haha in google reader it looks like that:
I can’t wait for that new Xzibit film
from Criticker Movie Blog
had to read that twice and nervously click the link to believe you wrote that
What in hell! I must say that I can’t wait for 2 Xzibit films! This one and The X-Files: I Want to Believe.
Filming just started on the 8th and is scheduled through August 26 in New Orleans, although I think that they’re still casting and whatnot. Here’s my source for that info (it also mentions a handful of other films):
http://blog.nola.com/business_of_film/2008/07/film_and_tv_productions_seek_a.html
I think I mentioned this film in a forum post, although the bizarre casting is new. Herzog is also working on an adaptation of a book called [i]The Piano Tuner[/i] which sounds right up his alley if you look it up, and David Lynch is going to produce his film [i]My Son, My Son[/i] which is a low budget affair about a guy who acts out a Sophocles play and murders his mother with a sword.
Oops, sorry, I obviously don’t know how to properly format bits of my reply…
Fixed