Sony Pictures is moving forward with a remake of Jagged Edge, the thriller being crafted for Oscar winner Halle Berry to play the heroine lawyer role originated by Glenn Close in the 1985 hit.
Directed by Richard Marquand from a Joe Eszterhas script, the original Jagged Edge starred Close, Jeff Bridges and Robert Loggia, the latter of whom got an Oscar nomination.
In Jagged Edge, a San Francisco heiress is brutally murdered in her remote beach house and her handsome newspaper publisher husband Jack is accused of committing the gruesome crime. He hires lawyer Teddy Barnes to defend him, and their chemistry spills into an affair. Even though the lawyer is falling in love, she can’t shake the feeling that something isn’t quite right with the case, with the killer sending anonymous notes pecked out on an old typewriter. Is Jack the key to a happy future for the lawyer if she can get him acquitted, or is he a sociopath? The original was released when sexually charged whodunits were the rage, and made Eszterhas (who wrote Basic Instinct seven years later) the highest paid screenwriter of his era.
Jagged Edge Remake Starring Halle Berry in Theaters 2019.
