50 Shades of Grey

[Pasquali56]

My wife just finished this book and I just saw that the film rights have been snatched by Universal and Focus. Based on what she's told me, it's X-rated with very explicit scenes of S&M. How will they market this as a film? An art film? Tone it down to R and go for a broader release? Should be interesting. I was trying to think of the last hard R film that got the rating for explicit sex (as opposed to violence). Maybe BASIC INSTINCT? 9-1/2 WEEKS?

[mge457]

My wife just finished this book and I just saw that the film rights have been snatched by Universal and Focus. Based on what she's told me, it's X-rated with very explicit scenes of S&M. How will they market this as a film? An art film? Tone it down to R and go for a broader release? Should be interesting. I was trying to think of the last hard R film that got the rating for explicit sex (as opposed to violence). Maybe BASIC INSTINCT? 9-1/2 WEEKS?

This sounds NC-17, reminds me of Shame.

[PoisonIvy]

Based on a price tag (this was a multi-studio bidding war), I doubt it will be an art film. I'm sure it'll be brought down to a hard R.

[nathanq]

The difference between an NC-17 and hard R is basically a few camera angles. If this is indeed a studio film, it will surely be R unless an auteur gets a hold of it.

[TheConnorNoden]

Drop the 50 and I share the same title as it, quite annoying. Probably won't matter if mine never gets made. More annoyingly I kinda want to read it now.

[LIMAMA]

This began as fan fiction on a TWILIGHT fan site--the author subsequently changed the names once it began to get popular. I wonder if Stephanie Meyers is pleased.

[brubenow]

Read all three books. If they cast it correctly, box office should be huge based on the book sales. Has to be a hard R though, which means a lot of the hard core stuff in the book will have to be left out.

[christopher jon]

naughty naughty

[figment]

Based on what she's told me, it's X-rated with very explicit scenes of S&M. How will they market this as a film? An art film? Tone it down to R and go for a broader release? Should be interesting. I was trying to think of the last hard R film that got the rating for explicit sex (as opposed to violence). Maybe BASIC INSTINCT? 9-1/2 WEEKS?


I read the first one -- it's a trilogy. The first one had very little plot, so maybe they'd combine all the books and do it as one movie?

Adrian Lyne could probably make it work since he's done similar movies -- 91/2 Weeks like you mentioned, Fatal Attraction, Unfaithful. I think it'd have to be similar in tone to 91/2 -- was that R? It seems like that was more than R (?) If I'm remembering right, that film is similar to this book -- he's a "dominate" and he wants her to be a "submissive," and all that that implies.

But the book's got a ton of S&M in it -- I don't see that being R anyway you look at it. Also, imo, it was creepy. It felt very oppressive -- the young MC desperately trying to hang onto this "hot" guy by doing things she doesn't want to do. But, you know, maybe the other two books have a lot of plot and so the naughty parts might just equal a few scenes.

[sherbetbizarre]

This began as fan fiction on a TWILIGHT fan site--the author subsequently changed the names once it began to get popular.
Did it originally have all the S&M?

:eek:

[christopher jon]

This began as fan fiction on a TWILIGHT fan site
Does a vampire sparkle when you spank her/him?

[UglyShirts]

This began as fan fiction on a TWILIGHT fan site--the author subsequently changed the names once it began to get popular. I wonder if Stephanie Meyers is pleased.

Certainly presents an interesting conundrum for the marketing, as well. Not that "Grey" isn't picking up plenty of "brand recognition" on its own, but I'm sure it's nowhere near the level of "Twilight." And having the tie-in certainly couldn't hurt.

[christopher jon]

Putting my business hat on, this should be an HBO series, not a movie.

[brubenow]

I read the first one -- it's a trilogy. The first one had very little plot, so maybe they'd combine all the books and do it as one movie?

Adrian Lyne could probably make it work since he's done similar movies -- 91/2 Weeks like you mentioned, Fatal Attraction, Unfaithful. I think it'd have to be similar in tone to 91/2 -- was that R? It seems like that was more than R (?) If I'm remembering right, that film is similar to this book -- he's a "dominate" and he wants her to be a "submissive," and all that that implies.

But the book's got a ton of S&M in it -- I don't see that being R anyway you look at it. Also, imo, it was creepy. It felt very oppressive -- the young MC desperately trying to hang onto this "hot" guy by doing things she doesn't want to do. But, you know, maybe the other two books have a lot of plot and so the naughty parts might just equal a few scenes.

SPOILER: the other two books have them eventually getting married and having kids, but they still like their S & M along the way, just toned down.

[brubenow]

Hi-larious:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DW-4Fn-d9OY

[figment]

Certainly presents an interesting conundrum for the marketing, as well. Not that "Grey" isn't picking up plenty of "brand recognition" on its own, but I'm sure it's nowhere near the level of "Twilight." And having the tie-in certainly couldn't hurt.

It's number 1, 2, and 3 on the New york Times bestseller list and also 1,2, and 3 on Kindle, so it's doing fine on its own. Bothers me it started as fanfic though, especially YA.

http://www.nytimes.com/best-sellers-books/overview.html

[figment]

SPOILER: the other two books have them eventually getting married and having kids, but they still like their S & M along the way, just toned down.

Really? Gotta say I didn't see that happening. Maybe the movie's focus will be more of an intense R-rated love story, then?

I thought for sure somebody would die at the end of it all -- since illicit sex usually means death or murder or whatnot. (along the movie lines of Fatal Attraction, Unfaithful and the like...)

It'll be interesting to see what they do with it if it gets made.

[brubenow]

Really? Gotta say I didn't see that happening. Maybe the movie's focus will be more of an intense R-rated love story, then?

I thought for sure somebody would die at the end of it all -- since illicit sex usually means death or murder or whatnot. (along the movie lines of Fatal Attraction, Unfaithful and the like...)

It'll be interesting to see what they do with it if it gets made.

It definitely goes more toward the love story line.... he has a backstory about how he got into S & M, and he has quite an arc at the end. No pun intended :)

[Miyamoto]

I had a funny experience at the airport regarding this book:

A woman was boarding the plane with this book under her arm. The guy taking tickets noticed it, and said, "You liking that book?"

"Yes," she replied. "I'm on the third one."

As she walked down the jetway, he called after her, "Frrrrreak!"

I didn't stop laughing until well after I'd gotten into my seat.

[pjc]

Based on a price tag (this was a multi-studio bidding war), I doubt it will be an art film. I'm sure it'll be brought down to a hard R.

he he he "hard R"...

[MacGuffin]

Does a vampire sparkle when you spank her/him?

:>)