After the "basic instinct" he warms up in America and struggles Her famous interrogation scene, No one was warmer than Sharon Stone, literally and figuratively. Every studio in Hollywood wanted to throw the newlywed Starwar into their biggest property, and Sony Pictures recorded it by bringing the script that promised to swell a classic Hollywood genre: Western.

The Hollywood West is a boys club for most, if not all of its history. Settled by male figures such as Clint Eastwood and Johnon Wayne, it seemed that this genre had no room for women who had no stains in trouble or a love -bearous interest that remained on family farms as men came out to shoot and kill. This is what Simon Moore's script made for "fast and dead" such hot goods. Written as a respect and Love -Board letter to Spaghetti West by Sergio Leone, the script overturned the genre of head putting a gun in the woman's hand as she begins in search of a bloody revenge in a duel competition in a border town.

Sony bought the rights of this specifications script and took them to Sharon Stone, offering Her the lead role. To sweeten the contract, she also received a co-producer loan with the opportunity to approve the engagement of key members of the cast and film director.

With that great power comes great responsibility, and Stone used it well by setting one condition to act in the film: that Sony Pictures hires Sam Raimi to direct the film.

At that time "fast and dead" were gathering, Sam Raimi was already cemented his signature style On quick moves on the camera, edits at the top of the editing and a grasp mixture of horror and comedy that made the audience hide and scream. His last picture was his biggest yet: "Army of Darkness", the medieval horror comedy culmination of the series of "wicked dead" that the director commanded the armies of evil skeletons.

It is a bizarre, unstoppable movie, and Stone has seen someone who could handle the awkward tone of "fast and the dead" in Raimi. Stone felt so strong that Raimi was the man for the job that gave Sonny an ultimatum: if they did not hire Sam Raimi to direct the "fast and the dead", she would go from the film as a whole.

With Stone's support, Raimi got the job and together they made one of the best ensembles in Raimi's career. From the good (Stone's co-stars include a young Russell Crowe in his first Hollywood picture and even younger Leonardo DiCaprio), to the bad (glorious cheerlead One of the best performances of the deceased actor), and the ugly (the film is positively full of acting actors like Keith David, Lance Henriksen and Tobin Bell), "The Fast and the Dead" is an underestimated gem of Sam Raimi's filmography.

In short, That's the ****** rules. And it's all because Sharon Stone was holding up to the guns to get Sam Raimi on the director's headquarters.