Verhoeven Wants To Make A ‘Showgirls’ Sequel

I know I really shouldn’t be THIS excited for this story, but God help me I am. It turns out bat-shit crazy and totally brillant director Paul Verhoeven sat down with the good people of The New York Daily News and discussed the very real possibility that he might make a sequel to his 1995 sleaze fest “Showgirls”. That’s right a sequel to “Showgirls” could possibly be in the works very soon, if the right studio comes along that is, at least according to Verhoeven himself. If you’re not familiar with ” Showgirls” then clearly you’ve been nestled under a rock for twenty years. The film is notoriously bad, some people (like myself) even put it in the so bad it’s good catergory. If you’re unfamiliar with the plot, if that’s what you want to call it here it is courtesy of IMDB:

A young drifter, named Nomi, arrives in Las Vegas to become a dancer and soon sets about clawing and pushing her way to become the top of the Vegas showgirls.

Now that might not sound like much of story, but thanks to Verhoeven’s cinematic insanity it is a piping hot mess to behold. Watching Jessie from ‘Saved By The Bell’ play a tough girl from the streets who’s only weapon in life is that of dance, is just plain hilarious. So what could Pauley V possibly do for a sequel you ask? Well according to him this:

“I would not do a ‘Showgirls’ remake — one movie was definitely enough! But we had actually been working on the sequel to ‘Showgirls’ which was going to be called ‘Bimbos’ and was going to be ‘Nomi does Hollywood’, but after ‘Showgirls’ was released there was no way anyone was going to give me money for that. If we could just make Elizabeth Berkley 20 years younger now, I would love to make ‘Bimbos’ today.”

Well good luck with that Mr. Verhoeven, I’m sure it will be glorious train wreck that I will be watching from the front row.

 

[Source: CinemaBlend]