ROBOCOP's Paul Verhoeven and Ed Neumeier Are Re-Teaming for Political Thriller YOUNG SINNER
Director Paul Verhoeven is re-teaming with writer Edward Neumeier for a new film project, a political thriller titled Young Sinner. The two talents have previously worked together on films such as RoboCop and Starship Troopers.
The due revealed the new project during an interview with Moviemaker, and they explained that the movie would be akin to Fatal Attraction and Basic Instinct and would be made with as few digital elements as possible. Verhoeven said:
“I’m really thinking that what Neumeier and I, at this moment, want to do with this script, Young Sinner, will be an innovative version of movies like Fatal Attraction and Basic Instinct. And it would not be adding all kinds of digital elements. As little as possible.”
Neumeier offered some additional insight saying:
“Young Sinner is a political thriller set in Washington, D.C. Our heroine, a young staffer who works for a powerful Senator, is drawn into a web of international intrigue and danger, and of course there is also a little sex.”
The screenwriter goes on to reveal that they’ve been consulting with a former intelligence officer named Ron Marks. He say’s Marks is “trying to keep us real about Capitol Hill and the spy business, but satire always seems to emerge when Paul and I work together, so I expect our new adventure will have a light tone.”
Verhoeven says he has been looking for this type of film to make for “the last 10-15 years.” This is a film like his previously made Elle and Black Book, but “this would be more explosive, and more open-minded to a big audience.”
It’s cool to see that Verhoeven and Neumeier are working together again!
Source: Deadline