Overview
- Eszterhas told Interview and multiple outlets that he has completed a new screenplay for a Basic Instinct reboot, a development first reported last year and updated in coverage on Sunday.
- He confirmed the script includes the legacy character Catherine Tramell and introduces a new character, Tramell’s daughter Jezebel, but he declined to disclose plot details.
- United Artists under Amazon MGM and producers Scott Stuber, Nick Nesbitt, Craig Baumgarten and Adam Griffin are reported as attached to produce, though no director or cast have been confirmed.
- Eszterhas sharply criticized the 2006 sequel as a diluted police procedural, said he was paid $1.5 million to have no involvement with that film, and said his condition for returning was that the reboot be “fun and enjoyable.”
- Some reported details remain disputed across outlets, including a claimed $4 million writing deal and a suggested link to director Emerald Fennell, so casting, financing and creative attachments have not been independently confirmed by the studio or talent.