Paul Verhoeven’s ‘Young Sinner’ to Start Production in Late Fall, An “Erotic Thriller” Set in DC

Paul Verhoeven released his excellent “Benedetta” in 2021, but the 84-year-old director isn’t slowing down. His impressive filmography, which includes “RoboCop,” “Total Recall,” “Starship Troopers” “Basic Instinct” and “Elle,” will be adding another film very soon.

Verhoeven mentioned back in March that progress on his next project was stopped due to the pandemic and that he was “ready to make movies again.” Now, I’m hearing he’s going to shoot a film titled “Young Sinner” in the fall. Screenwriter Edward Neumeier will pen the new thriller

Verhoeven has compared “Young Sinner” to his 2006 thriller “Black Book,” but “more explosive, and more open-minded to a big audience,” he told Movie Maker back in 2021.

Verhoeven adds that Neumeier’s satirical flair matches his own style. “If you see us working basically, it’s often just laughing. We laugh at our own satire that we bring in, not because we want to bring it in — it comes from our conversation. It just pops up,” he says.

The film is said to be an Erotic Thriller set in Washington, DC. Here are the plot details:

“Young Sinner is a political thriller set in Washington, D.C. The heroine, a young staffer who works for a powerful Senator, is drawn into a web of international intrigue and danger, and of course there is also a little sex.”

Verhoeven has described “Young Sinner” as “a more innovative version of movies like Fatal Attraction and Basic Instinct” and that he “would not be adding all kinds of digital elements. As little as possible.”

Verhoeven has been consulting with former intelligence officer, Ron Marks, who is informing the filmmaker about Capitol Hill and the spy business.