Last year Paul Verhoeven was trying to get a movie called The Surrogate off the ground, starring Halle Berry. It never seems to have happened, and it looks like they’ve moved on to a new project: The Student.
The movie,written by Wendy Diane Miller, is a sexual thriller about a 19 year old kid who takes up a summer internship… and then takes up with his boss’ wife. Things start to get dangerous from there. Halle Berry has been offered the role of the wife, a character named Miranda.
This is vintage Paul Verhoeven territory; somehow he made a terrific comeback film with Black Book in 2006 and hasn’t made a damn thing since.
The Student is set up with Relativity; it looks like The Student can get going where The Surrogate never did.