![Actress Kim Basinger, star of the film "The Informers", poses at the film's premiere in Hollywood Actress Kim Basinger, star of the film "The Informers", poses at the film's premiere in Hollywood](https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/rtxe2lz.jpg?quality=85&w=2400)
Kim Basinger is bringing her sexy back.
The actress, who became an international star with the steamy 1986 pic 9½ Weeks, is in final negotiations to return to the world of love and lust with Fifty Shades Darker.
Dakota Johnson and Jamie Dornan are back as whippersnappers-in-love Anastasia Steele and Christian Grey in the sequel to Universal’s adaptation of the E.L. James best-seller that climaxed at $570 million worldwide.
James Foley is directing the follow-up, with Basinger in one of the movie’s few new roles: Elena Lincoln. Lincoln is one of Grey’s business partners and, more importantly, the older woman and former lover that initiated him into the world of S&M.
A production start of mid-February is being planned.
Basinger won a best supporting Oscar for her turn opposite Russell Crowe in 1997’s L.A. Confidential and this May reunites with him for The Nice Guys, Shane Black’s pulpy 1970s-set thriller that also stars Ryan Gosling. Her credits range from James Bond movie Never Say Never Again to Eminem’s 8 Mile.
Basinger is repped by APA, Management Production Entertainment and Bloom Hergott.
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