Paul Verhoeven to return with "Hidden Force," his first feature in four years

Dutch director Paul Verhoeven, the man behind both Hollywood blockbusters like Robocop, Total Recall, and Basic Instinct, and Dutch arthouse classics like Turkish Delight and Soldier of Orange — not to mention one iconic Hollywood non-blockbuster, Showgirls — will direct The Hidden Force, his first feature film since 2006's well-received Black Book. The dark, World War II-centered Black Book had more in common with his Dutch movies than with the Hollywood stuff (although Verhoeven being Verhoeven, there was still a memorable scene of a beautiful woman dyeing her pubic hair). Titlewise, The Hidden Force might sound more like said Hollywood stuff (for some reason, I'm picturing Steven Seagal in a beret), but it's actually an adaptation of a 1900 historical novel by Dutch writer Louis Couperus, about tensions in Dutch-colonized Indonesia. Verhoeven doesn't always make good movies, but they're almost always interesting, and this one sounds very promising indeed.