Last month, it was announced that Amazon MGM Studios would be pursuing a “Basic Instinct” remake, and original actress Sharon Stone is sharing her brief thoughts on the matter.
Speaking with NBC‘s morning show “Today” to promote her role in the Bob Odenkirk action-comedy “Nobody 2,” Stone was asked about the remake and sounded a tad confused about the situation.
“I would just say, ‘Why do you do it?’ Go ahead, but good f***ing luck [laughs],” Stone said of the remake.
Stone also denied involvement in the remake, but the actress did previously reprise the role of murder suspect and author Catherine Tramell in 2006 for the sequel “Basic Instinct 2” directed by British filmmaker Michael Caton-Jones (“This Boy’s Life”), which obviously didn’t make the same impact as the original.
The weirdest aspect of the remake is a report claiming the remake would be “anti-woke” (whatever that means), as declared by screenwriter Joe Eszterhas, who returns after tackling the 1992 film.
A bizarre way to describe a “Basic Instinct” reboot, considering the original, directed by Paul Verhoeven, was specifically told from the male-fantasy perspective and even had Michael Douglas‘ Detective Nick Curran essentially date-raping (lack of consent) another key character, hardly progressive material, despite Catherine being one of the few strong female characters in an era in film where women were mostly seen as sex objects and without much agency in their stories.
Stone’s flashing scene was a huge controversy at the time, as the actress had said that the director had tricked her into showing off that much skin, more than she was expecting. Although ultimately, Stone still seems mostly proud of the career-defining film.
That said, Eszterhas is no stranger to the world of sexualized thrillers such as “Silver” (another Stone pic), “Jade,” and the wacky Verhoeven-directed Las Vegas exploitation flick “Showgirls,” considered one of the more entertaining “bad movies.”
In the original movie, Catherine Tramell is caught up in a string of murders as her lovers are turning up dead leading and is being investigated for their murders (which mirror the ones in her books she has authored), only for the cop (played by Douglas) on the case being thrust into a sexually-charged game of cat and mouse.
Feel free to check out that chat between Stone and “Today,” below.
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