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Paul Verhoeven and BASIC INSTINCT 2' I don't think so...
Hey folks, Harry here... and ya know... While the below scooper claims that Verhoeven hasn't OFFICIALLY turned down making BASIC INSTINCT 2... that the comments he is alleged to have said here... Well it certainly doesn't sound like he's going to be making this anytime soon... As for his Jesus film... sounds interesting...
Hosted at the ABC in Ediburgh was a special event with Paul Verhoeven on the 25th
which was before the UK premiere of hollow man. At the event Paul explained the reasons
behind his work and took audience questions.
Paul explained to this effect concerning Basic Instinct 2. That he has not turned down the
offer of directing but. A) he thinks the script is crap and will never match the level of the
first. B) the script is too similar to the first to have any reason to make C) Sharon Stone is
the personification of the devil in Verhoevens mind, and D) It would take a lot more than a night
with sharon stone to convince him to direct. He expalined he has told the studio all of the above!
Also by the way he was talking about Jesus so much I think that this may be what he is working on
at the moment, the life of christ story. Hard to tell, but he did explain how his religion etc. has effected his life so much..
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Verhoeven as DeMille - that's class. Man, the Flying Dutchman's take on the story of Christ WOULD be a hoot...albeit a towering cheese-fest couched with the now staple Verhoeven penchant for unabashed hedonism and unashamed vulgarity. I love the guy - hasn't made a bad film in my book. Basic Instinct and Showgirls truly belong in the 'so bad its good' category, and Robocop and troopers are perhaps the most scathing indictments on Capitalist fascism I've ever seen - pity only a select few got the joke.
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Harry, i emailed you what's really going on with Verhoeven. Guess it's floating around among your thousands of fanmails:)
Paul Verhoeven's next project is likely to be a film about the life of Victoria Woodhull, the first female presidential canditate in the US. Starring and produced by Nicole Kidman. He said this during a press conference in Holland, like a previous article on this site mentioned. But i got it from a more reliable newspaper.
More interesting: he is NOT going to direct Crusade (he said this during the press conference and before that to cinescape). Mr Schwarzenegger had the bright idea to rewrite the script and make the movie cheaper:(
Not a word about that Jezus thing, but he did say he made Hollow Man because several other projects didn't work out...
As for BI2: doesn't sound like a bad deal: directing a piece of garbage in exchange for a couple of million $ and a night with Sharon Stone...i would. -
and i'll gladly say it again: Verhoeven is GREAT! One of the best directors in my book, and the only guy in Hollywood who could have pulled off movies like Starship Troopers and Robocop. To bad about that Crusade news. Other directors could probably make a good movie out of that material, but a guy like Verhoeven is what Arnie needs to resurrect his career. I'm right, and you know it!
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Aug 28, 2000 6:45:34 AM CDT
From the director of SHOWGIRLS, BASIC INSTINCT, ROBOCOP, and TOT
by stephen dedalus
Oooookay.... like we need another filming of Christ's life put to the screen anyway. I loved Martin Scorsese's THE LAST TEMPTATION OF CHRIST very much, and to this day I hate the right-wing bastards who buried that film under controversy. That film touched me very deeply, and I have yet to see Pasolini's THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO ST. MATTHEW, which many have regarded as the best out there (although the director was actually a Marxist). But this just doesn't sound like a good idea to me. I dunno-- Scorsese is often labeled as making "just mob movies," but he actually makes films like THE AGE OF INNOCENCE and KUNDUN that have characters that draw on your sympathies and emotions... even the characters in his "mob movies" are able to do that. I never feel any compassion for the characters in Verhoeven's films, and its hard to get the audience to sympathize or even CARE ABOUT any of them. Religious dramas need to be made by film-makers who create characters that are NOT one-dimensional (like in Verhoeven's movies) but are multi-layered and get the audience involved. That's why so many of the big epics like KING OF KINGS and THE GREATEST STORY EVER TOLD are dismissed today, because they came out at a time when movies were becoming bigger and bigger in order to defend themselves against the rise of television, which was stealing away viewers. Similarly, today's movies have become more laden with special and digital effects in order to draw the audience away from the rest of the rapidly-expanding media and into the theater. Verhoeven is more visual that insightful, so I don't have good prospects for this if it is true.
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Shouldn't Paul Verhoven have to go to movie jail for at least 3-5?
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Sharon Stone really needs to go take a flying leap. There is nothing worse than a stupid person who thinks they are ultra-intelligent. The stupider a person is, the more often they comment on how intelligent they are. Sharon Stone can't put two sentences together without mentioning how "scary brilliant" she is. If she was so smart, she would have found a way to keep her career out of the crapper. Now she is slinking back to the one role that made her famous (and we all know why it made her famous), a role that she has spent the better part of the last decade denouncing as beneath her. Hopefully, this project will die sooner rather than later. What a dumb idea!
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Verhoven seems best suited at making so-called 'satires' about our modern world. I personally don't find his work particularly enlightening or insightful and frankly I think there's more to satire than the vulgarity that permeates his films.
And when I say vulgarity I don't mean that as 'Oh well, sex and violence are BAD!' What I mean is so many of his films portray such EXTREME tableaus of ultra-violence(and not in the good "Clockwork Orange" "Fight Club" way-those movies had points to make)and sexuality supposedly(sp?)
for 'satirical' or 'ironic'
purposes when in fact he uses both
sex and violence to such EXCESSIVE lengths that the films lose any meaning they could've had.
So the way I see it if Verhoven wants to make a story about Jesus he'll have to seriously alter the way he makes films. I mean who wants to see some kinda satirical take on Jesus? I'm sure that a very skilled filmmaker could make a good satire on Jesus, but certainly not Verhoven. All he knows is filling his flicks with excessive sex and violence, characters you DON'T care about and then hiding behind the beard of satire and irony, saying that anyone who doesn't like his films simply didn't understand them and is "BAD!"
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Verhoeven thinks that the script will never reach the level of the first one? That says it all right there. The script for the first one was utter crap. But then, so was the movie.
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instead of a Jesus film, he should do an old testament film. Have any of you actually read the old testament? Violence, sex, massive destruction! God is so in your face! How about it? A nice 3-4 hour film about the old testament. Jesus has been done a million times, we haven't had a good Old Testament film in a looong time. And if he doesn't want to do it, I'll do it, it'll kick ass!! Start with the creation, through Adam and Eve (sex and nudity), Noah, Abraham, Moses, Soddom and Gammorrah(more sex and violence), dude it would be killer!! What do you all think? Let me know...
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Is he making out with Burt Lancaster in From Here To Eternity?? Ugh.
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I know the Harry Head is From Here To Eternity, but all I think about when I look at is is Alien......"there is something attached to his face".
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Thankfully, it seems I am in the presence of clear minds in this talkback; ie, the belief that Verhoeven ain't all that and a side of ranch. Don't get me wrong. I have enjoyed some of his movies in the past... RoboCop is hands down one of the best s/f films of the 80's, and Total Recall was more or less the last good pre-digital effects s/f-action movie. But good lord, y'all... Base n' Stink, Ho-Girls, Star-shit Troopers. Steaming piles of shit, all of them. And I know I'm bound to be castigated for decrying the inanity of Starship Troopers... "It's brilliant! It's satire! If you didn't like it, then you just *didn't GET it*!" No... I just didn't like it. Period. It was crap. It was crap that would have made Joel Schumacher proud to be a filmmaker. That's the kind of crap I'm talking about. (Any film that you could say "wasted" the talents of Neil Patrick Harris sucks massive Dutch donkey cock.) Anyway... although I obviously have no love for some of the man's films, I don't think he's a shit director... that would be his other self, Jan De Bont. He's got a good eye and he is one of the indusrty's top F/X directors. I think he should stick with it, but only on the condition that he looks a bit more into storytelling and decent screenwriting. Ezterhaus is to good screenwriting what OJ is to being a good husband. No more Ezterhaus. Ever. If Mr. V could only be as discriminating with every project as he is with BI2 (Bi Too?) then I say it would serve him well. However, since --as was pointed out previously-- he claims the new script can't touch the original film... and the original film was merely masturbation material for your average 14 year old and nothing more... then maybe he is headed in the wrong direction after all.
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Jack articulated precisely my feelings toward Verhoeven's movies, as well as his fanboy disciples. He doesn't suck, per se... but his films certainly aren't what he wants us to believe they are.
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Does anyone else think calling your movie THE GREATEST STORY EVER TOLD, is just slightly arrogant?
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To wanna go back and do this pile of shit. You know what they call a franchise from an erotic thriller? They call it direct-to-video B-movie. Ms. Stone has "classed up" so much (which, in H'wood, means going to a hell of a lot of AIDS benefits) that I'm surprised she agreed to come back for a sequel. But I guess when you haven't had a hit in FOREVER you're desperate for anything. Even if you have to spread your legs for it. Welcome back to the gutter, Sharon, we missed you.
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I can see it now. Michael Douglas plays the role of his life, our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ. Sharon Stone is cast as Mary Magdalene, an exotic stripper and the whore of Jerusalem, on a mission to derail Jesus' quest to convert everyone to Christianity. I can see a scene with Roman sentries, interrogating Mary Magdalene, who gives them an eyeful of what's under her rags. Harvey Keitel is cast as Satan, trying in vain to tempt Jesus, smoking like a wildfire all the while and releasing a plague of giant bugs which terrorize all of Jerusalem...until Jesus miraculously makes them disappear. Samuel L. Jackson is cast as Peter, and Jesus' sidekick throughout the movie, quoting Job at all who dare to cross his path. And when the movie seems like it will reach the normal Biblical ending of Jesus' life, he realizes that all of his memories are not his own, that he is not really the son of God, and ends up setting up a financial investing firm in downtown Jerusalem, and changing his name to Gordon Gekko. What a cool movie...
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Paul Verhoeven is a brilliant director. Starship Troopers is one of the best films of the 90's, and I think history will prove me right. And I don't care what anyone says, Hollow Man was a great B movie. I especially loved it when Kevin Bacon bashed that puppy dog. I'll be first in line for his next movie, although I pray it's not Basic Instinct 2. That movie will suck no matter what.
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