Video interview: Joe Eszterhas (Basic Instinct, Jagged Edge)
For nearly a decade from the mid-80s to mid-90’s, Joe Eszterhas was one of the hottest screenwriters in Hollywood, writing scripts for a number of movies including Flashdance (1983), Jagged Edge (1985), Music Box (1989), and Sliver (1993). Eszterhas has also been one of the most controversial screenwriters , due in part to movies like Basic Instinct (1992) — remember Sharon Stone’s famous police inquisition scene? — and Showgirls (1995), which received the Golden Rasberry Award for worst screenplay of 1995.
But not many screenwriters have earned the likes of Eszterhas: $3M for Basic Instinct, $3.7M for Showgirls, and an astonishing $4M for a two-page treatment of One Night Stand. And so spend a few minutes in this interview from Fora TV with one of the most notable screenwriters in the last quarter-century.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4o4V2pVNsqA