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Exclusive: Producer Mike De Luca on Nicolas Cage’s DRIVE ANGRY and Alex Proyas’ DRACULA YEAR ZERO

by Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub    Posted: January 13th, 2010 at 12:05 am

If you’ve been reading Collider the past few days, you’ve seen what I’m calling “7 Days with Producer Mike De Luca”.  The reason for the name is, I was able to speak with De Luca for an extended amount of time and rather than post everything at once, I’ve broken our conversation up into smaller parts.  I’ve already posted what he said about the Metal Gear Solid movie and Ghost Rider 2, and now it’s time for his updates on Drive Angry and Dracula Year Zero.

If you haven’t heard of Drive Angry, it’s going to star Nicolas Cage and it’ll center on a man who is chasing the people who killed his daughter and kidnapped her baby.  It’s going to be a hard R and in 3D.  Also, it’s directed by Patrick Lussier, who recently did the very fun My Bloody Valentine 3D.  According to De Luca, “it’s hyper pulpy.”  He also says we can expect “car parts and body parts flying at you in 3D.”  Awesome.

The other update was on Alex Proyas’ Dracula Year Zero.  According to De Luca, the project is still at Universal and he’s trying to get the studio to think it could be one of their big tentpole releases.  He says,  “as written it’s literally on the scale of Braveheart with Dracula.”  Much more after the jump:

BAD LIEUTENANT: PORT OF CALL NEW ORLEANS Unofficial Trailer

by Matt Goldberg    Posted: May 27th, 2009 at 2:41 pm

Okay, well clearly this trailer for Werner Herzog’s remake/sequel of Abel Ferrara’s “Bad Lieutenant” wasn’t supposed to go online.

While I’m still not sure if it will be able to match the insanity of Ferrara’s original, it’s sure as shit going to try.  This time the “plot” (as much plot as their appears to be in this complete breakdown of a character’s psyche) doesn’t revolve around the rape of a nun but in trying to track down a homicide witness played by…Xzibit.  If this movie makes a “Yo Dawg, I herd you like…” reference, I will love it forever.

But it doesn’t look like it will need that kind of insanity because Nic Cage definitely has it covered.  It’s also a much better “Ghost Rider” reunion between Cage and Eva Mendes than the wholly unnecessary “Ghost Rider 2″ could ever provide.

Check out this unofficial trailer after the jump.

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