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Ferrara returns to 'Bad Lieutenant'

Abel Ferrara will apparently 'revisit' the cult classic through new film 'Pericle il Nero'.

Mar  2 2007

Some days, a news story comes in that I just don't understand. More often than not, I'll bin it in favour of something more simple, but today I'm going to post because it's just too interesting to ignore.

Controversial director Abel Ferrara has announced plans to adapt Italian author Giuseppe Farrandino's bestselling novel 'Pericle il Nero' ('Pericles the Black Man') for the big screen. What's so interesting about that I hear you cry? Well, Ferrara's producer claims that the film will 'revisit' the director's notorious 1992 cop flick 'The Bad Lieutenant'.

What this means is anyone's guess – will Ferrara use the same characters? Or cast the same actors? Or even stage some of the same scenes (Harvey Keitel's brief bout of trouser tennis immediately springs to mind)? At the moment that's not clear, but as soon as we find out more, we'll post the info here.

'Pericle il Nero' is set to shoot in Naples later this year using a mixture of American and Italian actors and with a budget of $4 million.

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