What began as a posting on a fan-fiction website as a tribute to author Stephenie Meyer 's Twilight books soon became a word-of-mouth eBook hit that won a major reprint deal with Random House.
The sexually-explicit story follows 27-year-old billionaire Christian Grey and 22-year-old virgin college student Anastasia Steele, who develop a relationship steeped in bondage, S&M, domination and submission. The novel is the first in a planned trilogy. James has sold 31 million e-book and print copies in English-language markets worldwide, in the U.S. alone she has sold over 20 million copies in e-book and print.
The scene Van Sant recreated, insiders said, is when the ingénue Anastasia Steele loses her virginity to Grey. Van Sant previously directed "Promised Land" and "Milk" for Focus Features--the studio that won the screen rights to the book with Universal Pictures
Author James has final say on who will be cast in the the film, which won't be decided until well after the script is completed Folks Ian Somerhalder, Matt Bomer, Newcomer Erik Odom and Henry Cavill have also been linked to play Christian. Arrow star Stephen Amell had a meeting about the role.
There were rumors that Emma Watson was being eyed for Anastasia. Watson took to Twitter and asked "Who here actually thinks I would do 50 Shades of Grey as a movie? Like really. For real. In real life. Good. Well that’s that sorted then.” On the flip side Mila Kunis said that she would be open to playing Anastasia.
Kelly Marcel is writing the adapted screenplay. She previously worked on "Terra Nova" and penned the upcoming "Saving Mr. Banks"
"Moneyball" and "The Social Network" producers Mike De Luca and Dana Brunetti won a bidding war to produce the film version of "Shades".
Not that I have any high hopes for something based of Twilight fan fiction, but if you are bidding to direct a film, maybe you should pick someone that's a better actor than Alex Pettyfer? That guy is terrible.
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