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Basic Instinct 2: Risk Addiction (2006) and Daylight (1996)

Film Stories with Simon Brew

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Basic Instinct 2

In 2004 Sharon Stone settled her lawsuit against Mario Casa and Andrew G. Vadger for Basic Instinct 2. A German film fund called IMF3 decided it had a few spare euros, why not pop a few quid into this absolute sure fire sequel to the Hollywood classic? The money helped pull together now a budget of $70 million, the large slice of which at least was going to Sharon Stone. With Stone having settled out of court, we now have the director and we had a star, and we still didn't have the leading man for the film. In fact, Rupert Everett would talk about his potential casting in an interview with the Irish Examiner where he said he was ultimately

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