'Scarlett Johansson is the perfect Ana': Writer Bret Easton Ellis on who should play the lead in film of 'mommy porn' bestseller Fifty Shades Of Grey (and he wants to write the script)
By JADE WATKINS
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It is the triple X rated - erotic bestseller that has taken the world by storm.
And since film rights were recently obtained by Universal Pictures, there have been several rumours swirling about who will take on the cinematic version of E.L James racy novel Fifty Shades Of Grey.
Now Scarlett Johansson is the latest star to be named as a possibility to play the book's female protagonist Anastasia Steele.
Top choice: Bret Easton Ellis says Scarlett Johansson would be perfect to play erotic heroine Ana Steele in the film adaptation of bestseller Fifty Shades Of Grey... Kristen Stewart and Angelina Jolie have also been touted
American Psycho author Bret Easton Ellis suggested that the 27-year-old actress is the perfect pick to portray the young college graduate, who is introduced to the world of BDSM by manipulative billionaire Christian Grey.
In the novel, Grey has a penchant for bondage and soon envelops Ana in a world of kinky sex, S&M and triple X-rated bedroom 'contract' games that make for strictly post-watershed reading only.
Keen: Controversial author Ellis put his hand up for the job of writing the screenplay for the film
Yesterday controversial author Ellis put his hand up for the job of writing the screenplay for the film.
According to Digital Spy, he wrote in tweets that have since been removed from his account: 'I'm putting myself out there to write the movie adaptation [of ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’]… This is not a joke. Christian Grey and Ana: potentially great cinematic characters.'
Ellis said both Scarlett and Twilight star Kristen Stewart would both be equally as good as Ana.
'Thinking more conventionally for Ana in Fifty Shades of Grey...Scarlett Johansson or Kristen Stewart,' he wrote.
The 48-year-old novelist also made suggestions for the male lead, proclaiming that Ryan Gosling would be ideal.
'Alex Pettyfer as Christian: too young?' he tweeted.
'Aaron Johnson as Christian Grey? In a perfect world it would be Ryan Gosling... David Cronenberg directing. Bret Easton Ellis writing. Ryan Gosling acting. Fifty Shades of Grey team.'
Ellis certainly has his heart set on Cronenberg directing, whom he worked with on American Psycho.
'I think David Cronenberg is a great idea for directing… and we worked together on American Psycho in its initial phase,' he tweeted.
Ellis also appeared to be making an appeal to the original writer of the novel, James, who as part of her deal with Universal gets approval of the script, director and cast.
Male leads: While the author says that Ryan Gosling would be the ideal actor to play Christian Grey, he has also suggested Alex Pettyfer
'I really want to adapt her novels for the screen. Christian Grey is a writer's dream...' he wrote.
Ellis, Johansson and Stewart are not the only names that have been attached to the cinematic version of the novel.
Best seller: EL James' explicit sensation has topped charts practically from the moment Vintage Books released it in early April
Earlier reports suggested that Angelina Jolie was in talks with Universal to direct the film, however her representation has since shot down the reports.
E.L. James' explicit sensation has topped charts practically from the moment Vintage Books released it in early April.
The Fifty Shades books began as fan fiction, inspired by the Twilight series.
The books became a word-of-mouth e-book hit after first being distributed in 2011 by the Australia-based Writer's Coffee Shop Publishing House.
It became a must-have among well-heeled women on New York's Upper East Side, and was dubbed 'mommy porn' after many admitted the books made them want to have sex with their husbands.
Since Fifty Shades stormed the bestseller lists, it has also inspired themed sex workshops and even Funny or Die and Saturday Night Live comedy spoofs.
Not everybody is impressed by the series' racy content though; several libraries in Florida, Wisconsin and Georgia have banned the books.
Ellis is best known for his books American Psycho (1991) and Glamorama (1998), as well as his first novel, Less Than Zero, which he penned in 1985 at age 20, while still a student at Bennington College.
The best-selling author recently announced that Lindsay Lohan will star in latest film he wrote titled The Canyons.
Filming for the movie will begin in September.
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