Fifty Shades of Grey Screenwriter Says the Film will be NC-17

Written by Vince Mancini / 01.08.13

It doesn’t get repeated often enough, but Fifty Shades of Grey started as Twilight S & M fan fiction written under the name “Snowqueens Icedragon.” (It’s unclear whether there was an apostrophe). Then, like an existentialist’s most masochistic boner fantasy about the animal nature of mankind, it spread through society like a venereal disease, eventually coming to encompass

“Well, there is going to be a lot of sex in the film,” [screenwriter Kelly Marcel - pictured] says breezily. “It will be rated NC-17 [18 here]. It’s going to be raunchy.” While they are not toning it down — “We are 100% going there” — some of the sex scenes have had to be edited out in order to get some plot in. “We did go through and decide which are our favourites and which are not,” she concedes. “Most of them are in there, but I can’t say more than that.” By “we”, she means herself and EL James.

Marcel has just returned to her house and dogs in Twickenham, after spending 10 days hanging out with the author in LA, poring over Fifty Shades in James’s hotel room, “with me going, ‘I just love Christian Grey, I feel…’ ” she sighs theatrically, “‘very deeply for him.’ ”

Did she then point at her vagina? I hope she then pointed at her vagina. “But why did you say ‘very deeply’ twice?” “I didn’t.

Discussing the finer points of Grey’s performance became second nature, so much so that at one point, when they were discussing the “contract” in the book (what Anna will and won’t agree to sexually), the maid came in “and we just carried on talking, ‘Fisting or no fisting?’ And suddenly she stopped dead. The poor maid. It was hilarious.” [TheSundayTimes]

Poor maids, they don’t know nothin’ about sex without Arnold Schwarzenegger there to demonstrate. Anyway, the script isn’t finished, no one has been cast yet, and the interview never follows up on whether the movie will include fisting like the book apparently does. But I’m guessing yes. I mean, it is a love story.

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Fifty Shades of Grey now the top FOUR best-selling books. Brb, leaving the Earth.

Written by Vince Mancini / 06.21.12

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Yes, Fifty Shades of Grey now makes up the top FOUR spots on the best-seller list. I could handle three spots, but FOUR?! THIS IS THE FINAL STRAW, EARTH!

Apparently having the top three titles on USA TODAY’s Best-Selling Books list for seven straight weeks isn’t enough for E.L. James.
This week, the queen of erotica has the top four titles for the first time.
Fifty Shades of Grey
, Fifty Shades Darker and Fifty Shades Freed are again Nos. 1, 2 and 3. The Fifty Shades Trilogy Bundle, all three books in a paperback boxed set (also available in e-book form), moves to No. 4 from No. 10.
The trilogy follows the erotic relationship between a college graduate and her billionaire entrepreneur boyfriend. It has sold 15 million copies in all formats. [USAToday]

Want your mind blown? Go check out Fifty Shades of Grey‘s Wikipedia page, where you’ll learn that it started out as Twilight fan-fiction written under the name “Snowqueen’s Icedragon.” Furreal. My mind needed a cigarette after I read that. In related news, Burnsy and I are thinking of publishing some of our erotic Frat-Fic under the name “Bropeen’s Iceluge.” Not to be a tease, but the Edward Fortyhands scene is so f*cking sexy, bros, you will puke.

Anyway, deride it as “mommy porn” all you want, literary bad boy Bret Easton Ellis has already expressed interest in writing the movie adaptation. Has the author of American Psycho offered to adapt YOUR fan fiction? Yeah, I thought not. Suck these jean jackets, haters.

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