MOVIE NEWS
BASIC INSTINCT 2
Sharon Stone (right) told 'Access Hollywood' that her character, Catherine Tramell,
will have a bisexual relationship in the sequel Basic Instinct 2: Risk
Addiction.
Stone: "There is lesbian love. We're testing for her now."
Stone said she was surprised at the attention her interrogation scene in the
original 1992 Basic Instinct movie received: "People still want to see some
more of that." When asked if that was the plan for the sequel, she smiled
and replied: "You can spend your $12 and go find out for yourself."
In the follow-up slated for release in 2006, Catherine relocates from San
Francisco to London and quickly finds herself on the wrong side of the law.
David Morrissey (TV's Blackpool) plays a criminal psychologist assigned the
task of evaluating her by Scotland Yard, and she may finally have met her
match in the shrink.
DIE HARD 4.0
'Empire Online' spoke to Bruce Willis about the Die Hard 4.0 script, who
said that: "Doug Richardson, who wrote Hostage, took a shot at Die Hard 4.0
and it's a good idea. The script will be done by summer and they want to
shoot it in the fall. McClane's retired, he's not a cop anymore.
It's completely different from the other three films. The only one of the
other three films that I thought had any merit to it was the first one.
Actually, in the third one I think Sam Jackson's work was really strong."
And why Die Hard 4.0? "Well, it has something to do with computers..."
CASINO ROYALE
Actor Julian McMahon (TV's Nip/Tuck, right) is apparently a front-runner for the
007 role in Casino Royale. The 36-year-old Australian reportedly said: "I'm
a big James Bond fan. I met the producers for a final audition. They told me
to expect a decision in a couple of months and they said it was between me
and one other person. It's going to be a very nervous wait."
Another late contender is British actor Daniel Craig (Layer Cake) and Clive
Owen (Closer), who has been long associated with claiming the Bond title.
In related news, speaking to the 'New York Daily News', director Martin
Campbell (Goldeneye) revealed the concept behind Casino Royale and how the
character will be unlike anything we have seen before.
Campbell: "There are things that will have to be changed from the original
novel. The Cold War elements will have to be reconfigured, for example, but
Casino Royale will be a grittier, tougher and more realistic Bond movie.
We'll be getting away from the huge visual effects kind of films."
"In the new film, Bond is essentially starting out in his career, and has
just recently become part of the double-0 section. The idea is to put a bit
of the dash back in Bond. By the end of the movie, the character will have
been forged into the wiser, harder Bond we know."
"The door is open for Bond, emotionally. He's in love with Vesper [Lynd] and
he sees there's another side to all of this, that life might be far more
pleasurable, more gratifying, than being a secret agent. And ultimately that
door is slammed in his face, which makes him the tempered steel kind of guy
that we know."
On the subject of the graphic torture that Bond suffers at the hands of Le
Chiffre, Campbell said: "I don't know what we're going to do about that. It
ranks up there with the teeth-drilling scene in Marathon Man. I'm looking
forward to humanizing Bond a bit. In the novel, Bond smokes 70 cigarettes a
day - unbelievable. And he gets a little drunk."
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