After almost 35 years, Joe Eszterhas is again to fundamentals with the follow-up to his 1992 erotic thriller.
The Primary Intuition screenwriter, who was tapped to pen a reboot for Amazon MGM Studio’s United Artists final yr, has given an replace on the script, which options the onscreen return of Catherine Tramell (infamously originated by Sharon Stone).
“They got here to me and requested, ‘Do you’ve any concepts for this?’” Eszterhas recalled to Interview Journal. “And I stated, ‘I do.’ I actually talked about naked bones. As , after Primary, there was a so-called sequel. … it’s actually unhealthy.”
In 2006, Sharon Stone reprised her iconic position for the Michael Caton-Jones-helmed sequel, Primary Intuition 2: Danger Habit, which was written by Leora Barish (Desperately Searching for Susan) and Henry Bean (Noise). The sequel grossed solely $38M worldwide, in comparison with the $352M success of the unique.
“They paid me 1,000,000 5 to don’t have anything to do with it,” stated Eszterhas of the sequel. “It’s straightforward cash. No person stated this to me, however I didn’t suppose they needed to take the sort of artistic probabilities the unique did. They didn’t need controversy. What they did was flip it right into a bland police procedural. They set it in London and the entire piece was actually boring. It didn’t have any humor. It didn’t have the spice and earth and wit of the unique. Within the 30 years because it got here out, I went by way of a number of Primary Intuition revivals and noticed audiences who simply adored the fucking film.”
Sharon Stone in ‘Primary Intuition 2: Danger Habit’ (2006) (MGM/Courtesy Everett Assortment)
After saying his work on the pending reboot final summer season, Eszterhas informed Interview that his situation was the replace has to “be enjoyable and satisfying. I simply completed the script and we’ll see.”
“Catherine Tramell is on this one, and so is a brand new character, her daughter, Jezebel,” added Eszterhas. “I can’t say an excessive amount of about it.”
In July 2025, Eszterhas revealed that he’s engaged on a “wild and orgasmic journey” for the United Artists reboot, which is produced by UA’s Scott Stuber and Nick Nesbitt, with Vault Leisure’s Craig Baumgarten and Adam Griffin, who’s govt producing through the banner.
When requested in regards to the reboot, Stone agreed with Eszterhas that it higher outperform the 2006 sequel. “If it goes the best way the one which I used to be in, I might simply say, I don’t know why you’d do it. I imply, go forward. Good f*cking luck,” she stated in August.
Directed by Paul Verhoeven, Primary Intuition starred Michael Douglas as Detective Nick Curran and Stone as his case’s seductive prime suspect Catherine Tramell, a manipulative crime novelist who’s the prime suspect within the brutal killing of a rockstar.