'Fatal Attraction' to get West End Treatment?

According to the U.K. Times and other published reports, the1987 film Fatal Attraction, which famously starred Michael Douglas and Glenn Close, is being adapted for the London stage by writer Hames Dearden and is being primed for a West End run as early as the end of 2010. Dearden, who also wrote the original screenplay, will set the romance thriller in the present and there is talk that the Glenn Close character, "Alex" may live in the end of this latest incarnation.  It is expected that the stage version may be all-around less violent.  However, the infamous "rabbit scene" will remain, as Dearden tells the U.K.'s Sunday Times: "Without it the audience might demand their money back." The play is being produced by Robert Fox. 

Fatal Attraction is about a married man who has a weekend affair with a woman who refuses to allow it to end and who becomes obsessed with him. It stars Michael Douglas, Glenn Close and Anne Archer and was directed by Adrian Lyne. The film was adapted by James Dearden and Nicholas Meyer from an earlier short film by Dearden for British television Diversion (1980).

Fatal Attraction was a smash hit, becoming the second highest grossing film of 1987 in the United States and hugely popular internationally. Critics were enthusiastic about the film, and it received six Academy Award nominations, including that for Best Picture and Best Actress for Close.

Additional production details in addition to potential casting possibilities, have not yet been revealed. 

 

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