Wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong #... sorry, I've lost count

My heart is breaking at this news, it really is:

A remake of Abel Ferrara's controversial 1992 masterpiece Bad Lieutenant is going into production later this summer.

I know. Wait, though, it gets worse:

A remake of Abel Ferrara's controversial 1992 masterpiece Bad Lieutenant is going into production later this summer. Taking on the role, brilliantly portrayed by Harvey Keitel with searing intensity in the original, is Nicolas Cage.

Yeah, I know. But wait, though, it gets worse:

A remake of Abel Ferrara's controversial 1992 masterpiece Bad Lieutenant is going into production later this summer. Taking on the role, brilliantly portrayed by Harvey Keitel with searing intensity in the original, is Nicolas Cage. And the remake will be directed by Werner Herzog. Yes, the Werner Herzog who made such magnificently barmy classics as Aguirre - Wrath of God, Woyzeck, Fitzcarraldo. Yup, another once great film-maker has "done a Scorcese", succumbed to sucking Hollywood studio cock and jumped on the remake bandwagon*.

Please, Werner, don't do it. You're better than that. Ah fuck, what's the point...

I envisage a future where Hollywood studios start remaking films that haven't even been shot yet. The Golden Age of the "Premake" is upon us!

* Yes, yes, I know Nosferatu was a remake and that was brilliant, but still...