"Fifty Shades of Grey" is slowly coming along. As more readers pick up the novels, they imagine who will play their favorite characters.
Michael De Luca and Dana Brunetti, producers of the Oscar-nominated film "The Social Network," have been picked as the production team for the erotic "Fifty Shades of Grey" film adaption.
Fans now want to know who will be a screenwriter (which has been narrowed down to four) and director, since these two steps need to be taken before picking a cast.
"Fifty Shades of Grey," written by bestselling author E.L. James, tells the story of 22-year-old recent college grad Anastasia Steele, who enters into a dominant/submissive sexual relationship with a BDSM-crazed billionaire named Christian Grey, and both explore each other while trying to understand their complicated relationship.
"Cosmopolis" director David Cronenberg recently commented on the buzz around the erotic novel.
"I haven't read it. It's not new," Cronenberg said in an interview with Indie Wire. "I remember "The Story of O," that popular French S & M novel was made into movie. It's old stuff to me in terms of subject matter. The fact that it's current and a big hit is new. Even Tony Richardson's "Madame" had elements."
Cronenberg directed similar S&M themed movies such as "A Dangerous Method," which explores the relationship between fledgling psychiatrist Carl Jung (Michael Fassbender), his mentor Sigmund Freud (Viggo Mortensen) and Sabina Spielrein (Keira Knightley), the beautiful but disturbed young woman who comes between them.
Anne Thompson, the journalist who conducted the interview, suggested that Cronenberg would be a good candidate to adapt the book for screen.
He responded on the positive side, and even said that he would read "Fifty Shades of Grey" if he was presented with it.
"Focus has got the rights. I wouldn't have any qualms about it for myself. If Focus offered it to me I'd read it."
Recently, De Luca and Brunetti revealed that the film adaption would be Rated-R.
"That's correct. The challenge is similar to adapting from any medium. We're going to treat this like adapting from Ben's [Mezrich] books or any books or adapting from a play or comic book or magazine article," De Luca said in an interview, according to Fifty Shades Film. "Anything that's not film, you get into a process of adaptation, and we're just going to kind of bring the same criteria to the adaptation of this. Obviously with this, when you're dealing with something that's found such incredible mainstream success, you want to preserve everything that's wonderful about it. The success of this has certainly been breathtaking, and we're going to honor that in our quest for the perfect adaptation."
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