Kim Basinger is back to steam up our screens as Prime Video commission racy remake of 9 ½ Weeks

The film 9½ Weeks, starring Kim Basinger and Mickey Rourke, had a huge cultural impact when it was released in 1986, thanks to its torrid sex scenes.

And I can reveal that Prime Video has commissioned a new version, in the form of a ten-part TV series.

The program, which will be more faithful to the ‘erotic poem’ novel than to the film, will once again feature Basinger, but she will not be the protagonist.

Instead, she agreed to take on a role as a college professor.

It has not yet been determined who the two stars will be, but the idea is that they are not too well known.

Principal photography will begin this summer in London and Manchester.

As some may recall, the film starred Basinger and Rourke (pictured) as a couple of strangers who quickly find themselves embroiled in a hot but completely random relationship with sadomasochistic overtones.

The original book, which achieved instant notability when it was published in 1978, was written by American journalist Ingeborg Day, under the pen name Elizabeth McNeill.

In the book, which is presented as a memoir, the reader learns that what begins as a one-night stand turns into a sexually submissive relationship that lasts nine and a half weeks.

In the end, the narrator has a mental breakdown.

Day wrote a second book, Ghost Waltz, in which he grappled with his Austrian father’s Nazi past and his son’s death as a child.

She herself committed suicide in 2011 at the age of 70, without having publicly acknowledged that she was the author of her most famous work.

Kim rose to fame as a Bond girl in 1983 through Never Say Never Again and enjoyed a long heyday for the next two decades.

At the height of his stardom, his films included the 1986 erotic drama 9½ Weeks and the 1997 neo-noir classic LA Confidential, which earned him an Oscar.

She and Mitch Stone were friends for 20 years before beginning their romance in 2014, a development she called “a beautiful surprise” in Tbilisi. Georgian daily.

Kim met Alec Baldwin on the set of his 1991 romantic comedy The Marrying Man, and two years later they walked down the aisle before welcoming her to Ireland in 1995.

However, in 2000 the marriage burst into flames, resulting in a divorce that was finalized in 2002 and an acrimonious custody battle that lasted for years.