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Emerald Fennell shoots down claim she’s ‘in negotiations’ to direct major movie reboot

Emerald Fennell shoots down claim she’s ‘in negotiations’ to direct major movie reboot

Published by Daniella Wilson

Get the latest entertainment news, reviews and star-studded interviews with our Independent Culture email Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter British director Emerald Fennell has denied that she is in negotiations to helm Amazon’s planned reboot of the 1992 erotic thriller Basic Instinct. In a new interview with The Guardian, Joe Eszterhas — who wrote the screenplay for the original cult classic directed by Paul Verhoeven, starring Sharon Stone as a crime novelist suspected of murdering a rock star — claimed that Fennell was “in negotiations” to direct his nearly completed screenplay for the remake. “The producers are negotiating with a really interesting director — a Brit, Emerald Fennell — who did Promising Young Woman and Wuthering Heights,” the 81-year-old writer said. “Her sensibility is exactly right. She’s someone who is not afraid of controversy and sexuality. So I’m thrilled by that. I hope it works out.” However, Fennell’s representative quickly told Variety that “there is no truth” to Eszterhas’s claims, …

Basic Instinct Reboot Could Be Directed By Emerald Fennell, Writer Suggests

Basic Instinct Reboot Could Be Directed By Emerald Fennell, Writer Suggests

Published by Sam Flores

Emerald Fennell UPDATE: Emerald Fennell denies Basic Instinct reboot rumours. It looks like we know what Emerald Fennell is cooking up as her next project to follow Wuthering Heights. The British filmmaker is currently in talks to helm a reboot of Basic Instinct, screenwriter Joe Eszterhas teased during a new interview with The Guardian. Joe – who penned the script of the original Basic Instinct, as well as the likes of Flashdance and Showgirls – explained he’s almost done with writing a new spin on the original 1992 erotic romance. He claimed: “The producers are negotiating with a really interesting director – a Brit, Emerald Fennell – who did Promising Young Woman and Wuthering Heights.” “Her sensibility is exactly right,” Joe continued. “She’s someone who is not afraid of controversy and sexuality. So I’m thrilled by that. I hope it works out.” After working both behind and in front of the camera on screen, Emerald made her feature-length directing debut in 2020 with Promising Young Woman, which was nominated for five Oscars and won one …

Wuthering Heights: Emerald Fennell is good, actually

Wuthering Heights: Emerald Fennell is good, actually

Published by Daniella Wilson

Get the latest entertainment news, reviews and star-studded interviews with our Independent Culture email Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter There is a two-minute section at the midpoint of‘Wuthering Heights’ that had me briefly convinced I was watching the greatest movie ever made. We watch as Margot Robbie’s Cathy wears Elton John’s sunglasses, paws at flesh-coloured walls, and skips and jumps around an eerily manicured garden straight out of Monty Don’s erotic nightmares. Charli xcx wails on the soundtrack, swaddled in reverb and metallic strings. Granted, Charli could probably belch in a soundbooth and I’d call it a banger, but still: gosh, I thought, this is cinema. But then the song ended, and Robbie – bored, randy and now for some reason dressed like Whitney Houston in 1988 – sat on some eggs and stuck her index finger into the mouth of a jellied fish. The illusion was broken. No, I concluded, this isn’t the greatest movie ever made. But it …

Emerald Fennell Addresses Jacob Elordi Wuthering Heights Casting Backlash

Emerald Fennell Addresses Jacob Elordi Wuthering Heights Casting Backlash

Published by Sam Flores

Emerald Fennell has spoken for the first time about the controversy that arose when it was first announced that Jacob Elordi will be playing Heathcliff in her new movie version of Wuthering Heights. Last year, the British filmmaker was accused of “whitewashing” a character many think of as a person of colour when it was first revealed the Euphoria actor would be taking on the iconic role. Asked about this during an interview with The Hollywood Reporter at her film’s premiere, Fennell said: “The thing is, everyone who loves this book has such a personal connection to it, and so, you can only ever kind of make the movie that you sort of imagined yourself when you read it. “I don’t know, I think I was sort of focussing on the kind of sado-masochistic elements of it.” Jacob Elordi at the Wuthering Heights premiere The Oscar winner continued: “That’s the great thing about this movie is that it could be made every year and it would still be so moving and so interesting.” Last year, …