Racy film 9 ½ Weeks that sparked outrage with sex scenes bags Prime reboot with original star Kim Basinger
RACY film 9 ½ Weeks – that sparked outrage with its sex scenes – has bagged a Prime reboot with original star Kim Basinger.
The original film was released in 1986 and saw Kim play a New York City art gallery employee who has a brief but intense affair with a mysterious Wall Street broker, played by Mickey Rourke.
The film featured a number of raunchy sex scenes and themes of BDSM as well a rape scene.
The film received mixed reviews from critics but has since achieved cult status, and now Prime has commissioned a reboot in the form of 10-part TV series.
MailOnline shared the news, revealing Kim, 69, will be part of the reboot – but will not be the protagonist this time around.
Instead, she will play a college professor, with the TV series reportedly being more inline with the ‘erotic poem’ novel the original film was based on, rather than the film itself.
The original book was published in 1978, and was written by American journalist Ingeborg Day, under the pen name Elizabeth McNeill.
Written like a memoir, it details a one-night stand which turns into a sexually submissive relationship lasting for – you’ve guessed it – nine and a half weeks.
Kim became quite the sex symbol in the 1980s thanks to her role as Bond Girl Domino Petachi in Never Say Never Again in 1983.
She filmed 9 ½ Weeks the following year, but it wasn’t released until 1986.
She won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in L.A. Confidential in 1997 and inn more recent years she has starred in The Nice Guys, Fifty Shades Darker and Grudge Match.
Meanwhile Prime is yet to confirm who will play the lead characters in the reboot.