Lyne would be paid $250,000 to help develop the script and have a final fee of $7 million. Part of the appeal of the deal was Adrian Lyne was attached to direct. The previous record was $1.6 million (against $3.4 million) paid to Eszterhas by producer Jon Peters to adapt a book about John Gotti for Columbia Pictures. "No one has ever paid this for a movie idea," said Eszterhas' agent Guy McElwaine. In 1994, Eszterhas sold a four-page outline for One Night Stand to New Line Pictures for $2.5 million, with an additional $1.5 million to be paid once filming had started. The film was based on a script by Joe Eszterhas then at a career peak due to the success of Basic Instinct (1992). Wesley Snipes as Maximilian "Max" Carlyle.Facing Karen sends Max into an emotional tailspin, and he realizes that he must tell Mimi the truth about his indiscretion. Max meets Charlie's brother Vernon ( Kyle MacLachlan) and is introduced to his new wife-Karen. A year later, Max and Mimi fly to New York to visit his close friend Charlie ( Robert Downey Jr.), who is near death from AIDS. When he returns home, Max seems distant and unhappy, though Mimi can't tell why and Max won't say. While visiting New York City, Max meets Karen ( Nastassja Kinski) by chance after missing a flight circumstances keep bringing them together over the course of the evening, and they end up spending the night together. Max lives in Los Angeles, where he has a successful career directing television commercials and is happily married to Mimi ( Ming-Na), with whom he has two children. The film is narrated by Max Carlyle ( Wesley Snipes).
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