Val Kilmer and  are set hook up with Nicolas Cage and Eva Mendez in cop drama Bad Lieutenant, a remake of Abel Ferrara’s cult classic.

The original focused on the depraved escapades of a corrupt policeman (Harvey Keitel) investigating the rape of a nun. The new film features Kilmer as the partner of Cage’s crooked cop and Xzibit as a villain.

Lieutenant most likely captures the spirit of the original, with the main character’s  drug intake, his accepting sexual favors as bribes and other elements that inducement so many to the 1992 version.

Filming is set to begin later in the summer.