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Fifty Shades of Grey Casts Dakota Johnson and Charles Hunnan as Leads

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NewsTony Sokol9/2/2013 at 1:28PM

Fifty Shades of Grey movie officially casts Dakota Johnson as Anastasia Steele, Charlie Hunnam as Christian Grey.

I don’t know how painful a decision it was, but after months of Fifty Shades of Grey movie cast rumors, I was just waiting for a safe word. The producers of the Fifty Shades of Grey movie cast Dakota Johnson, the daughter of Don Johnson and Melanie Griffith, in the role of Anastasia Steele. Charlie Hunnam from Sons of Anarchy will wield the whip as Christian Grey in Fifty Shades of Grey. Hunnam more recently starred in Pacific Rim, which was directed by Guillermo Del Toro.

Dakota Johnson is best known for her sex scene with Justin Timberlake in The Social Network. Before she started acting, the first official Fifty Shades of Grey cast member, Dakota Johnson, was a model at IMG. Dakota Johnson is currently shooting a modern-day re-telling of Shakespeare’s “Cymbeline.”

E.L. James The “Fifty Shades of Grey” author took to Twitter to spring the news this morning, she tweeted “I am delighted to let you know that the lovely Dakota Johnson has agreed to be our Anastasia in the film adaptation of Fifty Shades of Grey.”

Fifty Shades of Grey will be directed by Sam Taylor-Johnson, who helmed Nowhere Boy. The screenplay for the movie adaptation of Fifty Shades of Grey was written by Kelly Marcel, who wrote Saving Mr. Banks.

Focus will release Fifty Shades of Grey on Aug. 1, 2014.

 

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