Movies: Fifty Shades of Grey Casting

Shelf Awareness

Charlie Hunnam (FX's Sons of Anarchy) and Dakota Johnson (The Social Network) have been cast in the roles of Christian Grey and Anastasia Steele in the Universal Pictures and Focus Features adaptation of Fifty Shades of Grey by E.L. James. Sam Taylor-Johnson is directing a script by Kelly Marcel and Michael De Luca. Deadline.com reported that Hunnam "has shown the ability to summon a dark edge which will come in handy in playing the emotionally damaged Christian Grey over the course of three movies."
Johnson is the daughter of actors Don Johnson and Melanie Griffith. "It is not surprising the role went to a newcomer," Deadline.com wrote. "Nudity and erotic situations are plentiful in the book, and the movie will be no different, even though all involved are determined to get the film to an R rating." The film will be released August 1, 2014, in North America.