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Say what you want about Nicolas Cage–and God knows I have (have you seen the remake of The Wicker Man???)–but the fact still remains that, every now and then, the guy puts out some truly daring material. And his latest, Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans, definitely seems to belong in that Pantheon, next to Adaptation and, more specifically, Wild at Heart.

A remake of a 1992 film by the same name (minus the sub-title) starring Harvey Keitel, Bad Lieutenant follows Cage as he investigates homicides and does a lot of coke. Then does a lot of coke and investigates some homicides, looking all haggard and old.

But that’s not the best of it. The original risk-taker, himself, Werner Herzog (Fitzcarraldo, the amazing Grizzly Man) is directing. This is the guy who camped out in the Amazon jungle and pulled a 340-ton steamboat up a mountain for a film, all the while weathering death threats from the jungle’s natives and even a few from his star, the totally nuts Klaus Kinski. This is the guy who made grueling realist pictures like Stroszek in one breath, then grandiose, beautiful documentaries like Encounters at the End of the World in the other. With a range like his, I expect Bad Lieutenant to live in a world half dream, hallucinogenic and weird and disorienting, and half hard, unadorned, uncompromising reality. Which should be something to see.

Herzog actually has two films out this year though, the second being My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done, starring Willem Dafoe and Chloe Sevigne–which is supposed to be equally insane. No release date for that one yet, though.

Bad Lieutenant’s been circulating the festivals for a good month now but won’t be released in the US–limited, of course–until November 20th.

Here’s the rough first trailer. A more polished and way toned down domestic version was just released yesterday, too. Watch that HERE.