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WTF Happened to PAUL VERHOEVEN?


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WTF Happened To This Celebrity? – The JoBlo series that examines the careers of stars and filmmakers who may have fallen out of the spotlight, and tells where they are now!

After earning critical acclaim for his early foreign-language films like SOLDIER OF ORANGE (with Rutger Hauer), Dutch director Paul Verhoeven made a splash in Hollywood with the satire and carnage of ROBOCOP (with the great Peter Weller), STARSHIP TROOPERS and TOTAL RECALL (Arnold Schwarzenegger), along with more steamy works like BASIC INSTINCT and the infamous SHOWGIRLS (with Elizabeth Berkley). But in recent years, the filmmaker has retreated from big-budget genre material and substantially slowed his output. Would you like to know more? Then let’s find out “WTF Happened to PAUL VERHOEVEN!”

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He's 82 and still working. He can be forgiven for having slowed down.

Elle a few years ago was one of his best films, and he has another set for release sometime soon, I believe.

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Did you see that movie he made where that chick liked to get raped? It's pretty wild.

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What happened to him you say? He got old. Case closed.

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He didn't leave big budget genre movies and Hollywood with a bang, Hollow Man isn't exactly a film that's widely loved or praised.

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Truth is he got bored with Hollywood.

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