Paramount +'s TV remake of 'Fatal Attraction'

I've watched Fatal Attraction at least half a dozen times.I love those classy,erotic thrillers from the eighties and nineties.I can't wait to watch this.

Yeah,I'm really interested in seeing a more measured,maybe more sympathetic look at the character and I think they'll do that with this show.The film was very much from the perspective of the man,he was the victim,she was the villain,it wasn't very nuanced in that respect.

I really hope it does. There were a number of things I didn't like about the original but the worst offender was the heteronormative family values of it all. Presenting Alex as this sexually predatory Jezebel inserting herself into this good ole' American family and corrupting the patriarch. I truly, truly dislike erotic films that present as tawdry but instead are very sexually conservative. Unfaithful and End of the Affair struck me the same way. Really takes the fun out of your sexy movie.   

Basic Instinct for me. It's still provocative in the 2020s!

The fact that this is being written and directed by two women is reason to get a little interested, the fact Alex Forrest is now being played by someone you can actually imagine wanting to fuck at first sight definitely helps (though they seemed to have transferred that 'WTF is this casting' energy over to Dan. I know she's insane, but come on. You couldn't have at least got Dawson?), and Caplan is always worth watching and looks pretty good based on what little we can see here...

But it's going to need a lot more than that much mythologized original ending to save it and get it closer to its Madame Butterfly wannabe aspirations, and the fact that the two women it has been trusted to are basically hacks is not exactly anything to get excited over.

That based on this minute of footage this looks more like the kind of tacky trash you'd associate with a place called CBS All Access and less like the prestige Taylor Sheridan television that Paramount+ has been flooded with should maybe be no surprise.

I’ve always felt this way about Close in the movie. As great as she is, and she’s indeed great, I still feel she’s miscast and never bought into Douglas wanting to have an affair with her.

Black Widow remake, anyone??

Just out of curiosity, what have you guys been hearing in the "real world" about this? Invariably, I've gotten some version of... "Well, I definitely want to see it, but I just can't picture anyone but Glenn in this role."

One of my colleagues who I'm closest with was so funny... She said, "Where are the big blonde curls?! This is really throwing me." 

I agree. I’d be shocked if a single one of my friends, co-workers, or neighbors were aware of the existence of this.

I really rate Lizzy Caplan and I'm dying to see what she does with this role.I think this version will maybe skew a little more sympathetically to her character.As someone who loves the film,I'm looking forward to see them go deeper into her background/motivations etc.

I’m guessing it might be more focused on her mental illness