Instead, director Jim McBride — who earlier paid homage to the Killer by making Richard Gere's narcissistic dreamer a huge Jerry Lee Lewis
freak in his shockingly kinda -
awesome remake of Breathless — uses Lewis» legend as the springboard for a pop -
art cartoon take on the»50s, with a never - better Quaid playing Lewis as a cross between a strutting comic - strip rooster and a human version of Tex Avery's Big Bad Wolf.