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Basic Instinct reboot receives update following negotiation rumours

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The Independent UK

Maybe Emerald Fennell’s ‘Basic Instinct’ Will Be the One Adaptation That Really Works With Her Style

Joe Eszterhas, the acclaimed screenwriter behind the iconic 1992 erotic thriller Basic Instinct, recently claimed that director Emerald Fennell is currently in negotiations to helm a reboot of the film. However, according to Deadline, this exciting potential pairing seems to have hit a snag, as representatives for Fennell have strongly…

The Mary Sue

Emerald Fennell shoots down claim she’s ‘in negotiations’ to direct major movie reboot

Screenwriter Joe Eszterhas claimed that the Oscar-winning filmmaker was set to take on the planned ‘Basic Instinct’ reboot

The Independent UK

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33 Years Later, A Controversial Director May Or May Not Be Rebooting A Classic Erotic Thriller

Writer Joe Eszterhas is courting controversy with his 'Basic Instinct' reboot. Hiring Emerald Fennell is one way to do that.

Inverse

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The Guardian - UK

‘Coke and booze didn’t help my creativity’: Joe Eszterhas on his wild times – and his supernatural, anti-woke Basic Instinct reboot

He was the screenwriting colossus behind Flashdance, Jagged Edge, Showgirls and more. Now clean, ‘Hollywood’s Shakespeare’ talks about today’s scared studios, his refugee trauma – and taking acid with Hunter S Thompson

The Guardian - UK

Sharon Stone says she’s not involved in Basic Instinct reboot: ‘I don’t know why you’d do it’

The original film’s 80-year-old writer Joe Eszterhas will take a $2m fee for a new script but Stone will play no role in the film

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‘A wild and orgasmic ride’: Basic Instinct set for ‘anti-woke’ reboot

Original writer Joe Eszterhas is signed on for the new films, with the 80-year-old intending to unleash the ‘twisted little man’ inside him on the script

The Guardian - UK

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How Species' lofty science-fiction ideas were consumed by its monster instincts.

Space

What links Paul Verhoeven’s convent romp to the Sopranos?

From Benedetta to Showgirls – via Christopher Walken in A View to a Kill – we shimmy down the rabbit hole with the controversial film-maker

The Guardian - UK

Basic Instinct at 30: a lurid throwback to when Hollywood still took risks

Paul Verhoeven’s steamy, button-pushing thriller became a cultural phenomenon in 1992, making a star of Sharon Stone

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