![]() However, he soon admitted his changes weren’t improvements and agreed to shoot Eszterhas’s original screenplay. ![]() Paul Verhoeven was immediately interested in directing it, but he wanted to add a lesbian sex scene described by Eszterhas as “exploitative”, so Verhoeven asked for rewrites to be carried out by Gary Goldman ( Big Trouble in Little China), whom he’d just worked with on Total Recall. Joe Eszterhas wrote Basic Instinct in only a few weeks, then Carolco Pictures bought it for an incredible $3M. Basic Instinct may have been a major studio release with Hollywood royalty Michael Douglas given top billing, but Verhoeven’s involvement ensured it competed with its direct-to-video rivals by mixing high production values and star-power with boundary-pushing sex and nudity for a mainstream release. It was the perfect marriage between director and material, as the Dutch filmmaker’s foreign sensibilities had already transformed US sci-fi action with RoboCop (1987) and added welcome bite to Total Recall (1990). ![]() Whatever happened to the erotic thriller? Once a staple of 1980s and 1990s cinema, the genre arguably reached its peak with Paul Verhoeven’s Basic Instinct.
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