Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest: The Steamiest Thriller of the 90s Is Getting a New Installment

The steamiest thriller of the 90s is getting a new installment, so will its star return?

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
Arguably the most iconic thriller of the nineties, maybe returning
with its leading lady and talks to reprise her starring
role as well. Basic Instinct, the steamy who Done It?
Which turns Sharon Stone into a household name in nineteen
ninety two, is being rebooted by Amazon MGM Studios, and
to recapture the magic of the original, they're luring its
iconic writer out a retirement to pen a new script.
Are offering a sizeable payday. Joel Esterous is being paid

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four million dollars to deliver the screenplay, an unheard of
amount in this day and age, easily the biggest of
the year. He's not eighty years old, commanded big checks
back in the pass back he has paid three million
dollars for the original Basic Instinct that specscript in nineteen
ninety two, the equivalent of six point nine million today.
So will Sharon sign on this TVD expect the new
Basic Instinct of Prime with or without her.

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That's direct from Hollywood.