Femme Fatale

Proving that there's some magical movie plotlines that simply refuse to die, Julianne Moore has agreed to star as a sultry femme fatale opposite Richard Gere in new movie Without Apparent Motive. Following in the steps of many a Hollywood woman before her, Moore is ditching the cop look that didn't go down too well in Hannibal to land up well and truly on the wrong side of the law as a seductress whose hobby might well be a little murder on the side. The film will follow Gere's Los Angeles County sheriff's detective who, while investigating the murders of three high-profile businessmen, discovers that a high-society femme fatal might be moonlighting as a serial killer. Well, who could blame her for plumping for such an obvious role? It's worked before, for crying out loud. Although scarily long ago in the mists of time, the sexual tension between Bogart's Sam Spade and Astor's dastardly deceptive Brigid O'Shaughnessy in the classic The Maltese Falcon can still be cut rather thickly with that proverbial knife. And it didn't do Sharon Stone's career any damage by using her, shall we say it, feminine assets to entrap Michael Douglas in Basic Instinct. However where there's a Stone, there's also a Linda Fiorentino whose bad girl shtick in The Last Seduction was so good that she's never quite played another character again. Julianne, you have been warned.