20 years after Nicolas Cage, the bad lieutenant will be Lily James

The British actress will wear Bad Lieutenant: Tokyo, the third installment of the saga initiated by Abel Ferrara in 1992.

Almost twenty years after the hallucinated wanderings of Nicolas Cagethe saga Bad Lieutenant reborn – and it is Lily James who takes orders.

The cult saga imagined by Abel Ferrara in 1992 with Harvey Keitel offers an unexpected and exciting third part. This time, direction Tokyo, with Takashi Miike to the realization and an explosive cast. In Bad Lieutenant: Tokyo,, The British actress of Cinderella will take the rest of Cage (which was the Bad Lieutenant In 2009 in New Orleans for Werner Herzog) and Harvey Keitel (THE Bad Lieutenant Original in 1992).

According to Deadline,, Bad Lieutenant: Tokyo is well launched. Production must start this month, under the leadership of the studio Neonwhich will present the project to Cannes this month.

The casting is up to ambition: Lily James (Star of Baby Driver and the series Pam & Tommy) embodies a mysterious FBI agent there, alongside Shun Oguri (Godzilla vs. Kong), in the title role of the rotten cop, and Liv Morgan (ex-champion WWE, of his real name Gionna Daddio) in that of the missing girl of a politician.

The official synopsis promises a sulphurous and nervous thriller:

“Bad Lieutenant: Tokyo will follow a corrupt cop (OGURI), a compulsive player in the metropolitan police, embarked in spite of himself in a complex investigation when an enigmatic agent of the FBI (James) arrives, responsible for elucidating the disappearance of the girl of a politician (Morgan). At the same time, a deviant killer linked to yakuzas seems to follow each of their steps …”

The scenario is signed Daisuke Tenganfaithful collaborator of Miike on the cultivation Hearing And 13 assassins. We are promised a “wild and unique” cinematographic trip Sam Pressmanson of the late Edward R. Pressmanproducer of the original film.

“Bad Lieutenant is a character defined by the vision of his authors. Ferrara and Herzog have each delivered works as radical as personal. Today, it is Miike’s turn to instill his visceral chaos there. It is a dream come true.”