Here is a strange one on the remake front. Bad Lieutenant is pretty much note perfect, more of less of its time and place, (not to mention a hard NC-17 rating) and has a truly iconic performance from Harvey Keitel (baring both soul and well, you know). Why would you (Mr. Edward Pressman) want to remake this again? Nonetheless, things seem to be going forward with a screenwriter (TV police procedural writer William Finkelstein) and apparently without Abel Ferrara‘s or Harvey Keitel‘s involvement whatsoever.
The new version—with a working title of “Bad Lieutenant ‘08”—is less a sequel or a prequel than an attempt to take the raw material of the original film and weave it into 21st century, post- 9/11 New York. ... Finkelstein provides the Lieutenant with a small amount of addiction back story, the event that prompts his promotion from sergeant and the drug-related murder of five Senegalese illegal immigrants to pursue.
While there is some curiosity as to why 9/11 material/themes has to be integrated into this particular story, I will not be placing any sports bets on this one.
[Source: L.A. Times via Filmstalker]
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