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Amazon MGM Studios‘ United Artists and Scott Stuber have acquired rights to one of the most iconic ’90s erotic thrillers.
Basic Instinct (1992) writer Joe Eszterhas is returning to pen a not-yet-titled reboot of the Paul Verhoeven-helmed box office hit, which starred Michael Douglas as Detective Nick Curran and Sharon Stone as his case’s seductive prime suspect Catherine Tramell, a manipulative crime novelist.
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Producers include UA’s Stuber and Nick Nesbit, with Vault Entertainment’s Craig Baumgarten and Adam Griffin, who is executive producing via the banner
Grossing nearly $353M worldwide, Basic Instinct received mixed reviews at the time, but ultimately became an influential piece of work in the erotic thriller genre, infamous for its NSFW interrogation scene featuring Stone.
In 2006, Stone returned for a critically-reviled sequel from writers Leora Barish and Henry Bean, directed by Michael Caton-Jones.
Eszterhas is a Hungarian-American journalist-turned-screenwriter whose hit titles include Flashdance (1983), Jagged Edge (1985) and Basic Instinct (1992). Becoming known for his provocative style of screenwriting that explores themes of sexuality, power, and moral ambiguity, Eszterhas opened up about his time in the film industry in his acclaimed memoir Hollywood Animal (2004).
Stuber’s next films include Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein for Netflix and Deliver Me from Nowhere, the Scott Cooper-directed Bruce Springsteen biopic starring Jeremy Allen White for 20th Century Studios and Disney, both of which premiere this fall.
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