Basic Instinct

Basic Instinct writer finds religion in new script

Joe Eszterhas, who wrote the cult classic sexually-charged thriller Basic Instinct, Jagged Edge AND Showgirls (unbelievably) is getting back in the writer’s chair. The writer is developing a story surrounding the virgin of Guadalupe, a mystical vision who appeared to a peasant in 16th century Mexico, who’s widely credited with spreading Catholicism across Latin America. ….

Michael Douglas returns to the thriller with a remake of Fritz Lang’s noir Beyond A Reasonable Doubt

The last thriller I saw Michael Douglas in was the 2006 film The Sentinel, which I thought was ok. It didn’t measure up to the classic Douglas action/comedy/thrillers of the 70’s, 80’s and 90’s like Coma, The China Syndrome, The Star Chamber, Romancing the Stone, Black Rain, and the all-time modern classic erotic thriller Basic ….