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.

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.

Basic Instinct is an erotic thriller film that was released on March 20, 1992. This Paul Verhoeven-directed film was written by Joe Eszterhas, while Alan Marshall and Mario Kassar were the producers.