Gus Van Sant, who like Bret Easton Ellis pictured a more graphic, possibly NC-17 film, and Danish director Susanne Bier were the last two names on a shortlist that James and Focus Features had whittled down-but producer Michael De Luca had been a producer on a movie Sam Taylor-Johnson was going to do before it fell apart, and suggested she take a meeting about Fifty Shades.Īsked how she'd handle the book series' rabid fandom, she mentioned that her last movie, Nowhere Boy, had been about the Beatles. Jolie went with the adaptation of Unbroken-the beyond-inspiring story of Olympic athlete turned World War II pilot Louis Zamperini, who crashed, survived 47 days floating in a life raft and then survived a POW camp-for her follow-up project instead. There came word in June 2012 that Angelina Jolie had-if there was any truth to the rumor at all- perhaps had an informal discussion about directing the movie, having made her feature directorial debut in 2011 with Land of Milk and Honey.

I was able to watch something that everybody was speculating about sort of unfold in front of me.' 'The set was on lockdown, and it was just really fascinating. 'I had never been on a project with that much secrecy around it,' Bomback later told The Hollywood Reporter about the experience. The Wolverine scribe Mark Bomback was brought in to polish the Fifty Shades script in late October 2013. Travers to let him make a movie about her magical nanny. Banks-about Walt Disney's struggle to get Mary Poppins author P.L. Instead, Universal's Focus Features went with Kelly Marcel, who had penned the screenplay for Saving Mr. But this is a really good story, and it would make a really good movie.' 'I realized, Oh, this isn't well written. If it had not been as big of a hit, I would not have picked it up,' Ellis later told Vanity Fair. American Psycho author Bret Easton Ellis tweeted in June 2012, 'I'm putting myself out there to write the movie adaptation of 'Fifty Shades of Grey'.' And he meant it, publicly lobbying via Twitter and telling whomever would listen that he wanted to adapt E.L.

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