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

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Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest.
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Speaker 2: Arguably the most iconic thriller of the nineties, maybe returning
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Speaker 2: with its leading lady and talks to reprise her starring
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Speaker 2: role as well. Basic Instinct, the steamy who Done It?
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Speaker 2: Which turns Sharon Stone into a household name in nineteen
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Speaker 2: ninety two, is being rebooted by Amazon MGM Studios, and
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Speaker 2: to recapture the magic of the original, they're luring its
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Speaker 2: iconic writer out a retirement to pen a new script.
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Speaker 2: Are offering a sizeable payday. Joel Esterous is being paid
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Speaker 2: four million dollars to deliver the screenplay, an unheard of
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Speaker 2: amount in this day and age, easily the biggest of
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Speaker 2: the year. He's not eighty years old, commanded big checks
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Speaker 2: back in the pass back he has paid three million
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Speaker 2: dollars for the original Basic Instinct that specscript in nineteen
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Speaker 2: ninety two, the equivalent of six point nine million today.
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Speaker 2: So will Sharon sign on this TVD expect the new
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Speaker 2: Basic Instinct of Prime with or without her.
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Speaker 1: That's direct from Hollywood.