It was the movie that done a era of men think twice about carrying an event and brought the tenure bunny boiler in to the renouned lexicon. Now Fatal Attraction is to be transformed for the West End theatre but this time the jilted partner played by Glenn Close in the movie will be less of a monster, in line with both the writers and the actresss strange wishes.
Instead of the demented and vengeful stalker who annoyed a feminist outcry, Closes character, Alex Forrest, will be a unhappy and waste figure who escapes being shot passed in a bath tub.
The theatre version is the work of James Dearden, bard of the strange screenplay for the Oscar-nominated film, that done $350m at the box bureau when it came out in 1987. It will be constructed by Robert Fox, hermit of the actors James and Edward.
Closes co-star in Fatal Attraction was Michael Douglas, who played Dan Gallagher, a happily tied together New York counsel who thinks he can get afar with a week finish hurl with Forrest, a edition executive. When Gallagher subsequently spurns her, she becomes increasingly obsessive, at one point withdrawal his immature daughters house pet rabbit hot in a vessel on the kitchen stove. She is in the future shot passed by Gallaghers wife.
The impression has been voted one of cinemas tip 10 villains, but feminists hated the movie. In her provocative book Backlash, Susan Faludi criticised Hollywood for warping a story about a man who sets his sights on a lady in to one about a demented harridan.
In 2008 Close certified that her wild-haired description had influenced most couples. She pronounced in an interview: Men still come up to me and say, You frightened the shit out of me. Sometimes they say, You saved my marriage.
Deardens new adaptation, programmed for the finish of the year, will be updated to the benefaction day but the bunny boiler stage stays in. Without it, the assembly competence direct their income back, he said.
