More than 30 years after its launch, Basic instinct You will find a second youth. According to the variety of American media, Amazon works in a restart of Paul Verhoeven’s worship feature film.
Dutch director, also famous for Robocop, Showgirls, Total Recall, she EITHER BenedettaHowever, it will not be part of the project. But the screenwriter of the original film, Joe Eszterhas, to whom we owe to the character of the mysterious Catherine Tramell, embodied by Sharon Stone, will be in charge of the new stage.
One of the most profitable films of the 1990s
Launched in 1992, Basic instinct Inspector Nick Curran (Michael Douglas) follows his research on the wild murder of a rich rock star, which will lead him to a dangerous set of seduction with the main suspect, the novelist sulfur Catherine Tramell (Sharon Stone).
Although controversial for its provocative themes, its violence and its explicit sex scenes, Paul Verhoeven’s feature film had a real success at the box office, with more than $ 352 million in revenue in the world, which makes it one of the most profitable films of the 1990s.
The film also became a cult for the interrogation scene in which director Paul Verhoeven had asked Sharon Stone to take off his panties, assuring him that we would not see anything. A traumatic scene, as the actress told her memories, The beauty of living twice. He discovered during the projection to which he had been invited “in a room full of agents and lawyers, most of which had nothing to do with the project.”
“I hit Paul”
“This is how I saw the image of my vagina for the first time, much after they told me: ‘We can not see anything, you just have to take off your panties, because the target reflects the light, and we see that you use a'”.
“I went to the projection cabin, slapped Paul, I left, I went to my car and called my lawyer, Marty Singer.”
The madness for Basic instinct allowed the rise of the erotic thriller of the genre in the cinema and the launch in 2006 of a suite, Basic instinct 2 With Sharon Stone, but without Paul Verhoeven to realize. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the acquisition of the Amazon franchise would be one of the largest agreements of 2025. The studies have already paid $ 2 million and could pay two million more if this restart achieves it.
Source: BFM TV
