Editing Bad Lieutenant (section)

==Production==
According to Zoë Lund:
<blockquote>There was a lot of rewriting done on the set. Two other characters were cut, and my character modulated and took on more and more. A lot of things had to be changed and improvised. The vampire speech – which is crucial to the Lieutenant – was written two minutes before it was shot. I memorized it and did it in one take. The speech is important because she is acute in knowing the journey the Lieutenant makes. She shoots him up, sends him off, knowing of his passion, she lets him go.<ref name=interview>{{Cite web |url=http://dantenet.com/er/chats/interviews/zoe/zoe.html |title=Zoe Tamerlis Lund interview |access-date=June 30, 2015 |archive-date=March 4, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304060805/http://dantenet.com/er/chats/interviews/zoe/zoe.html |url-status=dead }}</ref></blockquote>

Lund avowed in an interview that she "co-directed" several scenes in the film.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=POb1Ge5z634#t=12 Zoe Tamerlis on drugs and sex in "Bad Lieutenant"]</ref> Lund also claimed that she wrote the screenplay of ''Bad Lieutenant'' alone and believed that Ferrara did not put much effort in his contributions in the film.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g68u0cARNjk Zoe Tamerlis on the script of "Bad Lieutenant"]</ref><ref name=wr>{{cite web|last=Rubinstein|first=Raphael|title=MISSING FOOTAGE|date=September 2014|work=[[The White Review]]|url=http://www.thewhitereview.org/features/missing-footage/|access-date=30 June 2015}}</ref>

According to [[Jonas Mekas]], Lund's ex-boyfriend [[Edouard de Laurot]] was reported to have written most of the film's script.<ref name=wr/> [[David Scott Milton]] later vouched for this claim.<ref name=milton>{{cite web|last=Milton|first=David Scott|title=Edouard de Laurot, Film Genius and Lunatic|date=13 September 2014|url=http://www.dsmilton.com/2014/09/edouard-de-laurot-film-genius-lunatic/|access-date=30 June 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304040000/http://www.dsmilton.com/2014/09/edouard-de-laurot-film-genius-lunatic/|archive-date=March 4, 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref> Mekas even claimed he had "scribbles and notes to prove it".<ref>[http://www.webofstories.com/play/jonas.mekas/50;jsessionid=D70154EB77FEE517A237BEFA3043154F Edouard De Laurot]</ref>

Ferrara said in 2012 that he was using drugs during the making of the film: <blockquote>The director of that film needed to be using, the director and the writer—not the actors.<ref>{{cite web|last=Walker|first=Luke|title=Breaking Bad: The Second Coming of Abel Ferrara|date=15 March 2012|url=http://www.thefix.com/content/abel-ferrara-dsk-addiction7476|access-date=18 April 2015}}</ref></blockquote>

The Special Edition DVD from Lion's Gate has a special feature about the pre-, during, and post-production of the film, in which Ferrara explains the screenplay's genesis, its authorship, and its original brevity.{{citation needed|date=January 2019}}

[[Christopher Walken]] was originally going to portray the titular character, having previously worked with Ferrera on ''[[King of New York]]''.<ref>{{cite web|last=Lambie|first=Ryan|title=Abel Ferrara interview: Driller Killer, Bad Lieutenant, Body Snatchers|date=24 November 2016|publisher=[[Den of Geek]]|url=http://www.denofgeek.com/uk/movies/driller-killer/45449/abel-ferrara-interview-driller-killer-bad-lieutenant-body-snatchers|access-date=23 June 2017}}</ref>