Abel Ferrara: '50 Cent is the real deal'

Abel Ferrara has praised the acting talents of 50 Cent.

The rapper had reportedly been cast in the Driller Killer director's planned adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.

Speaking to The Guardian, Ferrara said of 50 Cent: "He could be an awesome Ed Hyde. He's the real deal. But it's not gonna get made.

"Warner Brothers have put up about one fifth of what the film should cost and want about one third of what it's gonna make, and I'm supposed to kiss the feet of whoever made that deal."

He added: "They never made Jekyll & Hyde the way it was written. It's a guy and his creation. Having one actor play both parts is an abomination, a distortion of Stevenson's story. It's a masterpiece. I'm gonna make it one day."

Ferrara also claimed that he had resolved his feud with Werner Herzog over last year's New Orleans reboot of his 1992 movie Bad Lieutenant

"I don't have a problem with Werner Herzog," he said. "I got a problem with the guys who took our idea and when we did it for nothing, for sweat and blood, made it for $12m, without one person from our crew on the project. But now they called me back and said 'Let's do Bad Lieutenant 3', so I'm their biggest fan."