József Antal Eszterhás (Hungarian: [ˈjoːʒɛf ɒntɒl ˈɛstɛrhaːʃ]; born November 23, 1944), credited as Joe Eszterhas, is a Hungarian-American writer. Born...

neo-noir erotic thriller film directed by Paul Verhoeven and written by Joe Eszterhas. Starring Michael Douglas, Sharon Stone, George Dzundza, Jeanne Tripplehorn...

was based on a script by Joe Eszterhas then at a career peak due to the success of Basic Instinct (1992). In 1994, Eszterhas sold a four-page outline...

erotic drama film directed by Paul Verhoeven, from a script written by Joe Eszterhas, starring Elizabeth Berkley, Kyle MacLachlan, Gina Gershon, Glenn Plummer...

mockumentary black comedy film directed by Arthur Hiller, written by Joe Eszterhas and starring Eric Idle as a director unfortunately named Alan Smithee...

former President Jimmy Hoffa. The screenplay was by Joe Eszterhas and Stallone, from a story by Eszterhas. At a loading dock in Cleveland in 1937, supervisor...

rewrites. According to Joe Eszterhas' autobiography, Hollywood Animal, William Friedkin changed the script so much that Eszterhas threatened to remove his...

Jagged Edge is a 1985 American neo-noir legal thriller film written by Joe Eszterhas, and directed by Richard Marquand, the last of his films to be released...

Gibson and Warner Brothers for Judah Maccabee Movie. Eszterhas, Joe (April 11, 2012). "Joe Eszterhas open letter to Mel Gibson, April 9, 2011". Archived...

the real life case of John Demjanjuk. According to Joe Eszterhas's book, Hollywood Animal, Eszterhas wrote the screenplay for Music Box almost ten years...

collaboration. They got Paramount to greenlight the film by hiring Joe Eszterhas to rewrite Hedley's script. Adrian Lyne was not the first choice as...

and its sequel Basic Instinct 2 (2006). Tramell, created by writer Joe Eszterhas, is played by Sharon Stone in both films. Tramell is considered to be...

of the same name in 1993. Directed by Phillip Noyce and written by Joe Eszterhas, it starred Sharon Stone, William Baldwin, Polly Walker and Tom Berenger...

a concept by director Richard Marquand, who later collaborated with Joe Eszterhas on the script. However, following Marquand's unexpected death, the script...

the novel by Harold Robbins Flashdance, screenplay by Tom Hedley and Joe Eszterhas, story by Tom Hedley Hercules, screenplay by Luigi Cozzi Jaws 3-D, screenplay...

influence on his portrayal of lawyer Saul Goodman in Breaking Bad. Joe Eszterhas in his book, Hollywood Animal, writes that "all lies ever told anywhere...

sliver building. Phillip Noyce directed the film, from a screenplay by Joe Eszterhas. Because of a major battle with the MPAA (which originally gave the...

period coming-of-age drama film directed by Guy Ferland and written by Joe Eszterhas. Karchy Jonas is a 15-year-old high-school student and emigrant from...

they found it impossible to work together." According to screenwriter Joe Eszterhas, Chayefsky had a clause in his contract stipulating that the words in...

1988 American spy thriller film directed by Costa-Gavras, written by Joe Eszterhas, and starring Debra Winger and Tom Berenger. The plot is roughly based...

Richardson, the screenplay was rewritten by future Basic Instinct writer Joe Eszterhas because Lorimar Productions felt that Richardson was a "baby writer"...

Flintstones (1994) Joe Eszterhas – Showgirls (1995) Andrew Bergman – Striptease (1996) Eric Roth and Brian Helgeland – The Postman (1997) Joe Eszterhas – An Alan...

Caton-Jones Written by Leora Barish Henry Bean Based on Characters created by Joe Eszterhas Produced by Mario Kassar Andrew G. Vajna Joel B. Michaels Starring Sharon...

rock musician Lani Doherty, surfer Clint Eastwood, actor/director Joe Eszterhas, Hungarian-American screenwriter and author Thomas Wright Everett (1823–...

Golden Raspberry Award for Worst New Star (Jerry Springer, tied with Joe Eszterhas for his small cameo in An Alan Smithee Film: Burn Hollywood Burn). The...

was directed by Arthur Hiller, who reported to the DGA that producer Joe Eszterhas had interfered with his creative control. He successfully removed his...

versions of the script. One of the screenwriters who worked on it, Joe Eszterhas, was paid $500,000 to write his version. He re-wrote it as an erotic...

I don't think anybody had any idea what they were doing. It was a Joe Eszterhas script. To me, none of it ever really made any sense. I didn't realize...

outrageous gloss-trash erotic noir in the style that legendary screenwriter Joe Eszterhas used to crank out so lucratively in the 80s and 90s". Ed Potton of The...

Petar Skansi, Croatian basketball player and coach (d. 2022) 1944 – Joe Eszterhas, Hungarian-American screenwriter and producer 1944 – Peter Lindbergh...