The Best 80s Movie Reboot Gets Cancelled

If you don’t remember the original Fatal Attraction movie, you should know that it was the film that breathed new life into the tired erotic thriller genre. Half a decade before Michael Douglas got steamy with Sharon Stone in Basic Instinct, he starred in the more cerebral (but still pretty darn sexy) thriller Fatal Attraction alongside Glenn Close.

In rebooting the film into a television show, Paramount wanted to have it both ways: they wanted a production with all the breathless, dangerous romance of the original ‘80s film but in the form of a TV show that would appeal to younger audiences who prefer streaming entertainment.