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Val Kilmer Joins Bad Lieutenant

By Doug - July 3, 2008 - 08:40 America/Montreal

Val Kilmer and a gaggle of other actors including Jennifer Coolidge and Xzibit have been called up to join Werner Herzog In his recreation of Bad Lieutenant. We get the following scoop from our friends at comingsoon:

Val Kilmer, Fairuza Balk, Jennifer Coolidge, Vondie Curtis Hall, Shawn Hatosy, Denzel Whitaker and Xzibit are joining Nicolas Cage and Eva Mendes in Werner Herzog’s cop drama Bad Lieutenant, says The Hollywood Reporter. The new film will feature Kilmer as Cage’s partner, while Xzibit will play a villain.

The original followed the depraved adventures of a corrupt policeman (Harvey Keitel) investigating the rape of a nun. The new film will feature Cage as the titular crooked cop and capture the spirit of the original, with the protagonist’s drug intake, accepting sexual favors as bribes and other elements that endeared so many to the 1992 version.

I am very excited to see a Werner Herzog cop movie, a dirty cop at that! Having Val Kilmer as Nick Cage’s parter is fantastic, I hope they are both jaded cops that have given up hope and are just waiting for time to tick away, so they can cash in their pension. There is something disturbing about a cop that no longer believes in justice, it’s like watching a clown drink booze.

If Xzibit is a villain in the film, I wonder if he’ s the nun rapist! Getting cast as a nun rapist will get you pretty sweet respect in some circles; and not so much in others. I would try out for a nun rapist in a film and I don’t even want to be an actor! You would end up on so many nun rape lists that your name would forever be immortalized. I remember as a child watching Italian movies late at night (hoping to the heavens for nudity) and often would be surprised to see nuns getting totally raped. There is a surprising amount of nun rape in cinema and it pleases me to see Herzog up to bat for his turn!