A new profile of the filmmaking team in Vanity Fair details the unusual amount of influence James maintained over the film to protect her vision. They’ll be relieved to hear this isn’t one of those adaptations where the author pockets the money and doesn’t see a thing until the premiere. Those rabid fans now get to process the inevitable pile of liberties, like it or not, the film will take with James’ book.
James’ “Fifty Shades” series of erotic novels chronicling the romance between spunky virgin Anastasia Steele and hot, rich, kinky, emotionally-unavailable Christian Grey are international bestsellers with a loyal fan base that James first cultivated by hand in online “Twilight” fan-fiction circles. James’ “Fifty Shades of Grey” won’t feature its infamous “tampon scene”-quite possibly, a little of both-but news of the omission has been noted and added to the growing list of details emerging about the hotly-anticipated film.
It’s difficult to tell if fans are disappointed or relieved that the film adaptation of E.L.
