“She reached into her purse, and she pulled out a. One night he picked the stranger up and they went back to his hotel room to have some fun. Tramell also comes from a person Eszterhas knew in Ohio, this time a go-go dancer in Dayton. As Catherine says in the movie, he got too close to the flame.

That’s what Nick Curran does in Basic Instinct. He was a great cop on one level, but on another, you suspected he liked it too much. “He was always in the middle of shootings. “I met a cop who just liked the action too much,” Eszterhas told Nerve. CATHERINE AND NICK WERE BASED ON REAL PEOPLE.īefore he became a multimillionaire screenwriter, Eszterhas was a police reporter for Cleveland’s The Plain Dealer. “CBS Evening News came with a helicopter crew and found me on a beach in Florida and interviewed me about the money I got for Basic Instinct,” Eszterhas said. “The other thing that I don’t think was quite fair was that after that whole period, where scripts-mine and Shane Black's and half a dozen other writers’ scripts-went for a lot of money, the media zeroed in on the box office for some of those scripts, and they always zeroed in on the failures … When Basic Instinct went on to earn $400 million worldwide, there were no stories that said, ‘ Mario Kassar paid three million bucks for this.’” 2. Club that the media liked to focus on a writer’s failures, which occurred when Eszterhas’ Showgirls tanked at the box office. 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. THE SCRIPT SOLD FOR A RECORD $3 MILLION.īack in the day, spec scripts could sell for millions of dollars. Here are 15 not-so-basic facts about the revolutionary thriller. The controversial movie angered the LGBTQ community (particularly in San Francisco, where filming was protested) because of the psychopathic nature of Stone’s bisexual character, though Stone saw her more as a “party girl,” and Eszterhas thought of her as being omnisexual. (The much-delayed 2006 sequel, on the other hand, bombed at the box office.) Directed by Paul Verhoeven and written by Joe Eszterhas (who would team up again for 1995’s Showgirls), Basic Instinct grossed $352,927,224 worldwide against a $49 million budget, making it the ninth highest-grossing domestic film of 1992. Michael Douglas-who starred in another erotic thriller, Fatal Attraction-played her love interest, a San Francisco detective named Nick Curran. Twenty-five years ago-on March 20, 1992-Sharon Stone introduced moviegoers to Catherine Tramell, a novelist and suspected serial killer who stabs her victims with an ice pick while engaged in acrobatic sex acts.

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