Sharon Stone hopes to direct Basic Instinct 3, which will never be made
[/caption]So I feel like every time I turn around I am reading about another addition to a long dead movie franchise, epitomized recently with my discovery that Steve Guttenberg is working feverishly on Police Academy 8. It comes as a breath of fresh air then, to hear about someone going public with plans not to make a movie, as Basic Instinct producer Mario Kassar did recently.
Plans were in motion, with a completed script and everything, to tur Basic Instinct into a trilogy, but the project was officially scrapped a couple weeks ago in response to the fact that Basic Instinct 2 was a public and critical train wreck.
Sharon Stone mentioned that she had read the script for Basic Instinct 3 and liked it, but that she wanted to direct it herself.
"There's a script for the next part of the story - but I would like to direct it rather than star in it. It will be filmed in the U.K. again as the setting is more intense and gritty."
Stone as never directed anything before, although she is taking the helm of a film called Never Change, about a "nurse resigned to spinsterhood" who is caring for her high school crush, who is now suffering from brain cancer. The movie is in such an early stage of production that not a single cast member is yet listed, although the movie is slated for release later this year.
I may be wrong, I just learned about this movie about three minutes ago, but it seems to me that if Sharon Stone is playing an aging nurse who's high school crush has brain cancer, it might not be such a good idea for her to take on the smoky role of Catherine Tramell again. Of course, with my luck it will turn out that Stone is not even playing the main character herself, but nonetheless, this seems like a pretty smart movie by Mario Kassar...
