Yet surely "Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call, New Orleans" is an odd title? Let me give you my fantasy about that. Herzog agrees with Ed Pressman to do a remake of the 1993 film, which Pressman also produced. Pressman is no fool and knows a Werner Herzog remake will be nothing like the original. Abel Ferrara is outraged, as well he might be; Martin Scorsese picked "Bad Lieutenant" as one of the 10 best films of the 1990s.
"Gee, I dunno," Pressman says. "Maybe we should change the title. How about talking a line from the screenplay? How about calling it \'Port of Call, New Orleans\' "?
"We will compromise," Herzog says with that Germanic precision he uses when explaining something he needs to make clear. "We will call it \'Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call, New Orleans.\' " He\'s not going to back down from Ferrara. These are proud men.
