Louis Theroux
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Appearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
But it's directed by Paul Verhoeven of Starship Troopers, but that was later, I guess.
Basic Instinct, yeah.
Basic Instinct and... Some wonderful work in his home.
Robocop.
Robocop.
As well as some Dutch art films, because he's a Dutch auteur director of the highest caliber.
Screenplay by Jo Esther Haas, who'd also written Basic Instinct.
So it came with a very good pedigree.
It was an 18, I guess, or a 17.
So one of the things it was up against was that the audience... I think it was the widest release for a film that was age-restricted in that way.
It was the NC.
Not appropriate for us.
But... Non-communicative.
There we go.
It communicated something to me.
And in fact...
Paul Verhoeven has said, I did everything I wanted to with the film.
To me, I achieved exactly what I wanted to achieve.
I'm looking at my notes because I'm kind of making it up.
He said something along those lines.