By Kimberly Peirce, the “Boys Don’t Cry” and “Stop/Loss” filmmaker who previously tackled a remake with “Carrie,” is looking into another one.
Showbiz 411 reports that Peirce is attached to direct and co-write a remake of the Lawrence Kasdan written and directed 1981 sweaty erotic neo-noir thriller “Body Heat”.
A loose remake of noir classic “Double Indemnity” and set during an unrelenting South Florida summer, Kathleen Turner made her iconic film debut as the young wife of an older wealthy man (Richard Crenna) who is often away on business.
She starts an affair with an inept local lawyer (William Hurt) and eventually convinces him to help her kill the husband and run away with the money she wouldn’t otherwise get in a divorce.
Ted Danson also had a memorable turn as the assistant deputy prosecutor. The film is famous for its lewd dialogue, frank sexuality, Turner’s line about her character’s body temperature “running a couple of degrees high,” and the film’s ending.
Kasdan was coming off writing both “Raiders of the Lost Ark” and “The Empire Strikes Back,” and both penned and directed this before going on to co-write “Return of the Jedi” and direct another classic with 1983’s “The Big Chill”.
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