According to Weekly Variety (Jan 9th issue), production company Alain Siritsky Productions is planning to revive the never long moribund Emmanuelle soft-core porn francise. There have been so many unrelated rip-offs of the original series (including most notably the Laura Gemser films, which dodged copyright issues by simply dropping an ‘m’ to feaure the adventures of Emanuelle), which starred the delectible Sylvia Krystel, that I’m a little surprised somebody hasn’t done a book on the subject.
The original movie was, I think, based on a novel, and featured the sexual awakening of a French expatriot living in Bangkok, or some such. The most remembered scene in the movie, which Gene Siskel once showed (the beginning of) on a Sneaks Previews “guilty pleasures” program, featured Emmanuelle having sex with a guy during a commercial plane flight.
Anyhoo, here’s the part of the story that drew my attention: “In this updated telling, Emmanuelle is part of an alien plot against Earth uncovered by a satellite firm; intrigue is set in Buenos Aires tango bars and Patagonia.”
That word, ‘update.’ I do not think it means what you think it means.
The stars of the new movie will be found via “a talent contest a al American Idol“-like search, with folks auditioning their skills at such activities as performing phone sex and fake climaxes.
