Joe Eszterhas is back!
Man, the spec script market must really be on the rebound. Per THR:
The man who turned sexual thriller into its own genre with films such as Basic Instinct and brought sizzle to the screen with movies ranging from Flashdance and Jagged Edge to Sliver and Showgirls, has written Lust, an erotic thriller which Scott Steindorff and his Stone Village Productions are producing.
A cross between Basic Instinct and Fatal Attraction, Lust centers on a 30-year old beauty who is married and in love with an older Miami-based fashion magazine publisher, only to be seduced by a younger charming playboy on a business trip in Los Angeles. The playboy has an Russian assistant who is in love with him, and in this twisted jealous love triangle, secretly videotapes him and his new lover having sex to show it to her husband.
The consequences of the woman’s impulsive, escapade unravel into a high suspense thriller promising plenty of steamy sex scenes, set against the backdrop of the high-stakes world of real estate brokering in Miami.
“There are a lot twists and turns that only Joe Eszterhas can do,” said Steindorff, one of the producers of The Lincoln Lawyer, the hit legal thriller starring Matthew McConaughey. “There’s reason why he was the top writer for many years: the guy knows how to write. And there hasn’t been a great sexual thriller since Unfaithful.’”