Sharon Stone is giving her take on the Basic Instinct reboot in the works and sounds weary about it.
During a recent interview, Stone was asked about the reboot writer Joe Eszterhas is working on and recalled the 2006 follow-up that underperformed at the box office.
“If it goes the way the one that I was in, I would just say, I don’t know why you’d do it. I mean, go ahead,” she said during an interview on the NBC morning show Today. “Good f***ing luck.”
Stone became a superstar starring opposite Michael Douglas in the erotic thriller Basic Instinct, which Paul Verhoeven directed and was released in 1992. The film developed by Eszterhas had a sequel in 2006, but didn’t involve the writer, director, or Stone’s co-star, Douglas. Basic Instinct 2: Risk Addiction turned out to be a flop at the box office and was critically panned.
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Amazon MGM Studios‘ United Artists and Scott Stuber have acquired the rights to the erotic thriller with Eszterhas attached to write it.
“To those who question what an 80-year-old man is doing writing a sexy, erotic thriller: the rumors of my cinematic impotence are exaggerated and ageist,” Eszterhas said in a statement. “I call my writing partner the ‘Twisted Little Man’ and he lives somewhere deep inside me. He was born 29 and he will die 29 and he tells me he is ‘sky high up’ to write this piece and provide viewers with a wild and orgasmic ride. That makes me very happy.”
Grossing nearly $353M worldwide, Basic Instinct received mixed reviews at the time, but ended up becoming an influential piece of work in the erotic thriller genre, infamous for its spicy interrogation scene featuring Stone.