Showgirls: The Musical?

Considered either the worst film ever made or a cult classic, and the movie that’s generally thought to have ended the prolific success of its screenwriter, Showgirls

is one of those movies that’s so bad it’s good, with a truly awful performance by Elizabeth Berkley that seems she’s in a different movie altogether. Sort of like Johnny Depp in Pirates of the Caribbean, only bad.

Showgirls

was about the hopeful aspirations of a midwest gal who becomes corrupted by Las Vegas, helped in no small part by the real-life strip club Cheetah’s.

Now screenwriter Joe Eszterhas (who was paid $1 million to write the screenplay) is trying to launch the movie as a musical — headed for Las Vegas.

He’s in talks with legitimate producers who were behind a campy Broadway musical of their own right — Urinetown

An unrelated theatrical spoof recently ran in New York called Showgirls: The Best Movie Made. Ever!

. Read blog entries from Berkley’s character Nomi Malone.

Eszterhas just released his latest book, The Devil’s Guide to Hollywood,

a tell-all gossipy survival guide for screenwriters.

To wit, talking about writing Basic Instinct

and Sharon Stone, he said Stone (whom he was rumored to have had a one-night stand with so she could further her career) was hated enough that a crew member on one of her movies urinated in a bathtub she would later use in a scene.

Showgirls: The Musical?

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