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Fifty Shades’ Screenwriter – Kelly Marcel

Another British part of the Fifty movie madness, is the screenwriter, Kelly Marcel. With British actor, Charlie Bad Boy Hunman playing Christian, Sam Taylor-Johnson is the British Director, it perhaps was only natural the movie would be mainly British.

The screenwriter is the person who brings the book to the big screen. So let’s take a look at how Kelly Marcel has planned her adaptation of the erotic film from the book to the big screen. Screen adaptations aren’t easy, books have to be edited down for screen purposes, and hence why many people state a film is never as good as the book.

The film is going to be rated NC-17 (UK – 18) for the movie’s material content. There’s no surprise there then, we never expected it to be anything less, but the burning question is, will the book remain loyal to its raunchy roots?

Kelly has been quoted as stating that the movie has been edited, no surprise there then, but what is the story?  Kelly has stated that the movie is “a modern love story with two complex characters and that’s what I am interested in”

Kelly has admitted some of the raunchier scenes have been edited down, but the storyline remains intact. She’s also stated that she has had to take top measure to keep the script secret as Fifty fans scrabble for information.

Marcel is no stranger to screenwriting. She is the co-creator of Steven Spielberg’s Terra Nova, a highly successful TV drama. She has been primarily involved with TV and film and is the co-director with Tom Hardy of The Bad Dog Theater Company. She is 39-years old and her rise to screenwriting came from her stage adaption of the 70s porn movie, “Debbie Does Dallas” (Grins)

Her older sister is a well-known TV actress in the UK and her father is a director.  Kelly has also been in front of the screen with small parts on British TV regular serial dramas.  She is also the screenwriter of the pending Saving Mr Banks film which takes a look at the popularity of Mary Poppins and stars Tom Hanks.

The hiring of Ms Marcel took considerable criticism from American Brett Easton Ellis who applied for the role and he took to Twitter to share his disappointment in October of last year. He made no bones of the fact that he was disappointed and in fact was pretty scathing about Marcel’s appointment. Dear oh dear.

The producers who were behind The Social Network have acclaimed Marcel’s skills as a scriptwriter and soon Easton-Ellis’s comments were buried under other tweets. We don’t think the uber-cool Ms Marcel’s feathers were too ruffled, she is a cool British woman who very much displayed her stiff upper lip throughout Easton-Ellis’s mini rant about his disappointment.

Note: The Social Network connection and our newly cast Anastasia?  Yes, don’t forget, Dakota Johnson was in the movie.

Kelly Marcel is responsible for getting this movie from book to screen, we think she will do a great job and this is going to be a massive part of her resume.

Can she bring the worlds most talked about couple to the big screen for us to flock to?