50 Shades of Grey cast revealed
Fifty Shades of Grey author E.L. James has revealed who will play the lead roles of Christian Grey and Anastasia Steele in the movie version of the risque novels.
After months of speculation Dakota Johnson and Charlie Hunnam will take on the roles of Anastasia and Christian in the highly anticipated big-screen adaptation of the sexy novel.
The news was tweeted by novel author E.L. James this morning: “Good moaning all. Hold on to your hats…”
Dakota, 23, has starred in The Social Network – in which she shared a love scene with Justin Timberlake – and has had small roles in 21 Jump Street, The Five-Year Engagement and Beastly.
She is the daughter of Don Johnson, best known for TV shows Miami Vice, and his actress ex-wife Melanie Griffith.
It’s thought producers cast Dakota because they wanted a young, up-and-coming actress to play the role of virginal Anastasia, who embarks on an intense voyage of sexual discovery with her S&M-loving boss Christian.
Charlie, 33, stars in the dark biker thriller Sons Of Anarchy as Jackson ‘Jax’ Teller and also appeared in robot movie Pacific Rim.
The castings puts an end to the endless rumours of who would be cast – much to DYRT’s dismay as our readers wanted The Vampire Diaries, Ian Somerhalder as our Mr Grey.
Fifty Shades Of Grey will be directed by Sam Taylor-Johnson (Nowhere Boy), based off the adapted script by Kelly Marcel (Terra Nova).
The film is currently slated for release in August 2014.
