Amazon MGM Studios' United Artists and Scott Stuber have acquired the rights to the not-yet-titled relaunch of the 1992 erotic thriller “Basic Instinct,” with the original film’s writer Joe Eszterhas returning to pen the script.

Original screenwriter Joe Eszterhas has a new 'Basic Instinct' script, 33 years after the Michael Douglas and Sharon Stone-starring erotic thriller.

Basic Instinct (1992) writer Joe Eszterhas is returning to pen a not-yet-titled reboot of the Paul Verhoeven-helmed box office hit, which starred Michael Douglas as Detective Nick Curran and Sharon Stone as his case’s seductive prime suspect Catherine Tramell, a manipulative crime novelist.