Scott Stuber<\/a>\u2019s United Artists banner and Amazon MGM Studios. <\/p>\nLooking back at the 2006 sequel, Basic Instinct 2, Joe said: \u201cThey paid me a million five to have nothing to do with it.\u201d<\/p>\n
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He continued: \u201cIt\u2019s easy money. Nobody said this to me, but I didn\u2019t think they wanted to take the kind of creative chances the original did.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nJoe added: \u201cThey didn\u2019t want controversy.<\/p>\n
\n\u201cWhat they did was turn it into a bland police procedural. They set it in London and the whole piece was really boring. It didn\u2019t have any humor. It didn\u2019t have the spice and earth and wit of the original.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nThe sequel, released in 2006, was instead written by Leora Barish and Henry Bean. <\/p>\n
\nDespite Joe\u2019s criticism of that film, he confirmed he has agreed to write the screenplay for a reboot, saying audiences have continued to embrace the original over the past three decades.<\/p>\n
\nHe said \u201cin the 30 years since it came out\u201d he has gone \u201cthrough a lot of Basic Instinct revivals\u201d because audiences \u201cjust adored the f****** movie.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nJoe wrote the screenplay for the original 1992 film, which was directed by Paul Verhoeven and became both a box office success and one of the most debated releases of its era. <\/p>\n
\nThe project shot Sharon Store to global stardom thanks to her career-defining performance as crime novelist Catherine Tramell \u2013\u00a0and her character\u2019s infamous leg-crossing scene while she was being interrogated by cops. <\/p>\n
\nDiscussing the new Basic Instinct project, Joe said he insisted from the outset making the film should be enjoyable.<\/p>\n
\nHe added: \u201cSome people will laugh at some of the dialogue. Others will be p***** off by it.<\/p>\n
\n\u201cBut even those who are p***** off will secretly enjoy it, even if they don\u2019t publicly.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nJoe added: \u201cIt will be controversial.<\/p>\n
\n\u201cWith the original, people forget that one of the things that made it so successful when it opened commercially, right off the top, was that there had been controversy for months before its release. There were protests in New York and L.A. I\u2019m not afraid of controversy.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nThe original Basic Instinct followed detective Nick Curran, played by Michael Douglas, as he investigated the murder of retired rock musician Johnny Boz, portrayed by Bill Cable, before becoming entangled with Sharon\u2019s enigmatic novelist Catherine Tramell. <\/p>\n
\nThe film became one of the decade\u2019s highest-profile thrillers, although it also prompted protests over its portrayal of LGBTQ+ characters during the HIV\/AIDS epidemic and debate over its explicit sexual content.<\/p>\n
\nJoe confirmed Catherine will return in the reboot and revealed that the story will introduce her daughter.<\/p>\n
\nHe said Sharon\u2019s character is in the new project, adding \u201cand so is a new character, her daughter, Jezebel\u201d.<\/p>\n
\nJoe declined to reveal further details, but said the screenplay would continue to challenge audiences.<\/p>\n
\nHe said viewers would repeatedly find themselves asking: \u201cHoly s***, did I hear that right?\u201d<\/p>\n
\nJoe added: \u201cOne of the things happening in filmmaking today is films have become more tepid and whitened.<\/p>\n
\n\u201cMy script for the sequel is anything but that.\u201d<\/p>\n
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