Fresh from his erotic nun drama Benedetta [read our review here], filmmaker Paul Verhoeven looks to have found his next project and will reteam with RoboCop and Starship Troopers screenwriter Edward Neumeier for Young Sinner.
“Young Sinner is a political thriller set in Washington, D.C.,” said Neumeier in an interview with Movie Maker. “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.”
“I really think 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,” added Verhoeven. “And it would not be adding all kinds of digital elements. As little as possible.”
Verhoeven went on to state that Young Sinner will be similar in tone to the likes of Black Book and Elle, “but this would be more explosive, and more open-minded to a big audience.”
Should the project move ahead, it would mark Verhoeven’s first U.S. film since 2000’s Hollow Man. His latest, Benedetta, premiered at the Cannes Film Festival this year and was released in the U.S. last week. It opens in the U.K. on March 25th 2022.
