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All is not well behind the scenes

There is a growing tension behind the scenes of the bestseller cum big screen hit, Fifty Shades Of Grey

 

Everyone is more than aware of the tension between Fifty Shades Of Grey writer E.L. James and the film’s director Sam Taylor-Johnson.

But it sounds like there was pretty hard feelings between James and the film’s screenwriter too.

So much so that Kelly Marcel never wants to watch the movie.

"My heart really was broken by that process, I really mean it," she said.

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"I don’t say it out of any kind of bitterness or anger or anything like that. I just don’t feel like I can watch it without feeling some pain about how different it is to what I initially wrote."

Kelly goes on to explain how she wanted the film, about inexperienced English student Anastasia Steele who embarks on an S&M relationship with handsome billionaire Christian Grey, to pan out.

"I didn’t want the story to be linear; I wanted it to begin at the end of the film, and for us to meet in the middle so you start with the spanking, and you have these sort of flashes that go throughout the film. I wanted to take the inner goddess out, and all of Ana’s inner monologue. I wanted to remove a lot of the dialogue. I felt it could be a really sexy film if there wasn’t so much talking in it."

But despite the studio bosses saying to do what she wanted, that wasn’t the case:

When I delivered that script was when I realised that all of them saying, “Yeah, absolutely this is what we want!”, and, “You can write anything you like and get crazy and artistic with it” – that was utter, utter bullshit. Rightly so. Erika was like, “This isn’t what I want it to be, and I don’t think this is the film the fans are looking for” Ultimately, Erika did have all of the control.

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