Instead, the screenplay was done by Niall Leonard - James’ husband - for both sequels. Marcel, the screenwriter, also didn’t return. James Foley ended up directing both Fifty Shades Darker and Fifty Shades Freed. In the end, Taylor-Johnson decided she couldn’t go through with doing the second and third films in the same vein as Fifty Shades of Grey. Taylor-Johnson described James’ connection to the book as strong with a clear vision on her end, and Taylor-Johnson had one on hers.
While talking about her experience, she said that she has a bit more compassion about the experience having had “distance” from it for a couple years and she found that it was a good idea to part ways. In fact, in a 2019 interview with Collider, she said as much. Safe to say, this is why Taylor-Johnson didn’t return for the sequel films. Taylor-Johnson did not direct the last two ‘Fifty Shades’ installments Even in edits and polishing of the script, James didn’t allow the script by Marcel - the ones James helped write - to be altered. Sources told The Hollywood Reporter that James was ultimately given unprecedented “power” and “control” to flex on the movies. That’s just a good example of what happens after an author signs away their materials, sometimes. In Fifty Shades of Grey, it didn’t really.
AARON TAYLOR JOHNSON FIFTY SHADES OF GREY MOVIE
However, in that case, the movie adaptation would have benefited from some help from the source material. He offered to write the script, to stay true to his original concept - his personal work - but since he sold the rights to his work, his hands were tied when they refused. When he did that, he didn’t have much say in the creation of the movies made from his books, and that resulted in the two movies in the early 2010s that don’t hold that fond of memories for fans. And this experience is a big example of why.įor instance, author Rick Riordan was very open and honest about the copyright process with his selling of rights for the Percy Jackson series. “Authors shouldn’t necessarily be in charge of adapting their own work,” they wrote in 2018. Nor, as The Washington Post wrote, should it be. This isn’t typically how adaptations work, though.
When authors sell the rights to their work, they typically aren’t as involved in the film adaptation process submissive messaging in the movie made it in due to James. However, if you’ve seen the movie, you’ll know that the more graphic sex scenes and overt dominant vs. And according to their sources, Johnson and Dornan were behind Taylor-Johnson “99 out of 100, if not 100 out of 100 times.” This started with less graphic sex scenes, subtlety, and just better dialogue than the book. Taylor-Johnson reportedly wanted to make a better movie than what people expected. While James wasn’t as upfront about the struggle, she did say that “People are going to butt heads, and that is exactly what happened.” I think both of us felt it was an incredibly painful process.” “She would be the first to say as well that it was not easy. “We’d often clash and have to find a way to work through that to get to some sort of resolution,” Taylor-Johnson told The Hollywood Reporter in 2015 about working with the author.
She also worked on the screenplay and had a major hand in direction, despite Taylor-Johnson’s vision. James, who wrote the Fifty Shades books - which were famously Twilight fanfiction first - was a producer on the film. And unlike many other book-to-screen adaptations, author E.L. She received critical acclaim for Nowhere Boy in 2010, which was about John Lennon’s adolescence, and starred Aaron Taylor-Johnson, her future husband. The first film in the trilogy was directed by Sam Taylor-Johnson. James Is Still Shocked ‘Fifty Shades’ Is So Popular
James at the UK Premiere of “Fifty Shades Of Grey” on Feb. Sam Taylor-Johnson, Jamie Dornan, Dakota Johnson, and E.L.
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