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Basic Instinct. Basic Instinct is a 1992 neo-noir [3] erotic thriller film directed by Paul Verhoeven and written by Joe Eszterhas. Starring Michael Douglas, Sharon Stone, George Dzundza, Jeanne Tripplehorn, and Wayne Knight, the film follows San Francisco police detective Nick Curran (Douglas) as he investigates the brutal murder of a wealthy ...
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- THE SCRIPT SOLD FOR A RECORD $3 MILLION. Back in the day, spec scripts could sell for millions of dollars. Joe Eszterhas joined that club when he sold Basic Instinct—a script that took him just 13 days to write—for $3 million in 1990.
- CATHERINE AND NICK WERE BASED ON REAL PEOPLE. Before he became a multimillionaire screenwriter, Eszterhas was a police reporter for Cleveland’s The Plain Dealer.
- MICHAEL DOUGLAS AND PAUL VERHOEVEN APPROACHED THE MOVIE AS IF IT WERE A DETECTIVE NOVEL. Verhoeven wanted to make a modern version of an Alfred Hitchcock thriller—except with a lot more sex.
- THE ICE PICK SCENE GAVE SHARON STONE NIGHTMARES. In a 1992 interview with Playboy, Stone revealed that she didn’t mind the sex scenes but did mind the violence.
Mar 18, 2021 · The day Basic Instinct came out in theaters I hired a limo. Mimi and I started in Harlem and went to movie theaters all over NYC, from one side of town to the other, into the wee hours of the morning.
May 5, 2022 · Basic Instinct was scandalous – and long before Sharon Stone sat down for questioning, uncrossed her legs, and made the sexually charged neo-noir the hottest movie of 1992. Months after ...
Making an erotic thriller after Basic Instinct was like making a space opera just after Star Wars came out. It might do well at the box office, but it could only ever come across as a pale imitation.
Synopsis. When rock star Johnny Boz is viciously stabbed to death with an ice pick during sex by a mysterious blonde woman, homicide detective Nick Curran (Michael Douglas) is sent to investigate. The only suspect is Catherine Tramell (Sharon Stone), a crime novelist who was the last person to be seen with Boz on the night he died.
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