Overview
- Joe Eszterhas told The Guardian on Tuesday that producers were negotiating with Emerald Fennell to direct a new Basic Instinct.
- Fennell’s representative later said there was no truth to the report and that she was not involved in any way.
- Amazon MGM Studios also rejected the story, calling reports that Fennell was in talks to direct “categorically false,” according to The Independent.
- The reboot remains in development with Eszterhas writing under a reported $4 million deal with Amazon MGM and United Artists.
- Eszterhas has described his script as “anti-woke” with copycat serial killers and supernatural elements, and the project draws added scrutiny given the original film’s contentious legacy and Sharon Stone’s signals she is unlikely to return.