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Emerald Fennell Denies Reports She’s Directing ‘Basic Instinct’ Reboot Movie | Just Jared: Celebrity News and Gossip
Eszterhas says Fennell fits the project because she is not afraid of controversy and sexuality, as Amazon-backed reboot talks continue.
- Screenwriter Joe Eszterhas claimed in a new Guardian interview that director Emerald Fennell is in negotiations to helm a Basic Instinct reboot, describing her as "exactly right" for the project.
- Eszterhas, who established a reputation with 1990s provocations like Showgirls and Sliver, announced last year he was writing a Basic Instinct reboot and characterized his vision as "anti-woke."
- Amazon MGM reportedly shelled out $4 million for the screenplay, with the 80-year-old Eszterhas promising the reboot will be "wild and orgasmic" and dismissing age-related criticism as ageist.
- Fennell's representative told Variety that "there is no truth" to Eszterhas's claims, while Amazon MGM Studios called them "categorically false," immediately shutting down the negotiations narrative.
- Original star Sharon Stone dismissed reboot rumors on the Today show last summer, while Fennell's recent filmography includes the 2020 film Promising Young Woman and the Wuthering Heights adaptation.
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Emerald Fennell Denies Reports She’s Directing ‘Basic Instinct’ Reboot Movie | Just Jared: Celebrity News and Gossip
Emerald Fennell Denies Reports She’s Directing ‘Basic Instinct’ Reboot Movie Emerald Fennell is shutting down reports that she's in negotiations to direct the Basic Instinct reboot movie. In recently published interview, Basic Instinct…
With the recent adaptation of Cumbres Borrascosas, Emerald Fenell has demonstrated his ability to lead a blockbuster of commercial revenue. And so, the next step of the filmmaker responsible for author productions like A promising young woman (2020) or Saltburn (2023) could be according to several international media, that of leading the reboot of a classic erotic cinema of the 90s: Basic instinct. A news that we know thanks to the recent statem…
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Columbia TriStar/Moviepix/Getty ImagesUPDATE: Emerald Fennell’s team has denied that the filmmaker is in talks to direct a Basic Instinct remake. A representative for the filmmaker commented, “there’s no truth in this. She is not involved in any way,” per Variety.To paraphrase a popular Star Wars meme, somehow Emerald Fennell returned. Since her critically acclaimed (and honestly pretty good!) debut feature Promising Young Woman, with each subse…
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