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]

Originally Posted by 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?

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]

Originally Posted by Pasquali56

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]

Originally Posted by LIMAMA

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?