Some reboots will not be ignored. According to The Hollywood Reporter, FOX is in development on a television event series based on the smash 1987 thriller Fatal Attraction, which starred Michael Douglas and Glenn Close.
A sleeper hit upon release, Fatal Attraction centered on a successful New York attorney and family man named Dan Gallagher (Douglas) whose affair with unstable book editor Alexandra “Alex” Forrest (Close) leads to dire consequences for him and his family. The new version is being penned by Maria and Andre Jacquemetton (“Mad Men”) as a limited series with the potential for a second season.
Stanley R. Jaffe and Anonymous Content’s Rosalie Swedlin will executive produce “Fatal Attraction,” while FOX’s president of entertainment David Madden was the supervising executive on the original film, which scored six Oscar nominations including Best Picture and Best Actress.
Fatal Attraction helped set the tone of both star Michael Douglas and director Adrian Lyne’s careers, with the former falling for femme fatales in Basic Instinct and Disclosure, while Lyne went on to helm a string of erotic thrillers including Indecent Proposal, Lolita and Unfaithful. With a screenplay by James Dearden (based on his short film Diversion) along with an uncredited Nicholas Meyer, the film was also the highest-grossing movie worldwide of 1987.
