slaves, tell me about 50 Shades of Grey

SPLASH fiction

could SPLASH be the new *plop*

I'm half expecting this to be revealed as James Frey's latest project. Maybe this writer shouldn't write again, but she should be put in charge of the romance segment of a major publisher. However it happened, she felt, desired, and ultimately put her finger on the product that the pro's hadn't felt for her yet. Her solution was to give away the merchandise, build the interest, step 3, and then make a cover without a photo Photoshopped to look like a painting that resembled the cover of a romance book in the traditional sense.

My store has been setting record sales, but to Hunger Games fans. We don't have a good hand-sale for the next. We're weeks away. It's been fun, I'm drunk at the moment. I can't get it up anymore. When they ask for it, I always tell them they're already soaking in it.

I'm half expected the last post to be revealed as E. L. James's latest project.

Guys, I was standing next to this burly/fat mid 30s slightly smelly hispanic dude on the subway this morning, and I glimpsed, over his shoulder, on his iphone, a page of text with the word "jeez" and further down the word "Christian."

I find the entire concept of "subversive erotica" baffling

cumminists

stop right there

From each according to his ability, to each according to his need ...

the man said stop right there

ilx threads need a killswitch

Dictatorship of the Prostatariat

socialtits

hummer and tickle

Marxist Dialickedick

goo log

Hundred Deflowers Campaign

Remove Buttplug from this Thread

Suggest Bondage

Flagellate Post

Pooperlink

Convert simple JEEZ to BDSMcode

"Turn Back!" cried my Inner-Poxy Fule.

oh, analpaws

older black lady working at potbelly at midway airport was shoving this into her purse as she arrived at work

truly, a work that crosses age and ethnic barriers

Kinda curious how they'll get a PG13 rating out of the movie adaption

Three Words: Big Black Bars.

response option confusion

Can't wait to see how they're gonna turn this into a PG-13 movie

― ʕ•̫͡ʕ•̫͡ʕ•̫͡ʕ•̫͡•ʔ•̫͡•ʔ•̫͡•ʔ•̫͡•ʔ (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, May 22, 2012 11:23 AM (1 week ago) Bookmark

Kinda curious how they'll get a PG13 rating out of the movie adaption

― Dreaming in Infrared (kingfish), Thursday, May 31, 2012 2:31 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark

Kinda curious why people would assume they would even try to get that rating. if The Hangover and The Matrix and Pretty Woman can be as successful as they were with R ratings, and the whole draw of the book is sex, why would they tone it down any more than they'd have to to avoid NC17?

not sure why anyone assumes a 50 shades movie will ever be made? there are some pretty key formal differences between fanfic and film that would prevents its success in the latter form

remove the generic, non-descript narrator that readers project themselves onto, tone down the graphic sex, what's even left? tbh i think the first-person 'everywoman' pov is pretty crucial to the appeal

but i guess i can't rule out that the movie might happen, worse & stranger things have happened.

if this does get made into a movie i cannot WAIT to see who gets cast in the role of the inner goddess

People are assuming a movie will be made because the books made a gajillion dollars and Universal bought the film rights.

Queen Latifah xp

THE RED ROOM OF PAIN - INT. DAY.
CHRISTIAN IS FLOGGING ANA'S NAKED TUSH WITH A PING-PONG PADDLE.
INNER GODDESS (V.O.)
JEEZ.

thread title always makes me hum

http://rgcred.files.wordpress.com/2009/04/grateful-dead-touch.jpg?w=470

Just whistle thru your teeth and spit

"Touch of Grey" could be the prequel

The 50 shades of grey album would be a mashup of to the extreme and the kids of widney high

People are assuming a movie will be made because the books made a gajillion dollars and Universal bought the film rights.

...for at least a few million.

the author and agent got the prestige track record of James Schamus’ Focus Features, backed by the guaranteed passion of Langley, who chased this one hard.

Ang Lee, maybe?

I have an idea for a film. It’s about an innocent creative executive who is drawn into the dangerous and erotic world of slash fiction writing after he boss assigns her to comb through Twilight fan faction sites looking for an idea he can rip off.

Comment by Michael — Monday March 26, 2012 @ 12:07pm EDT Reply to this post

haha "chance"

The author and agent did a similar thing when they set Fifty Shades of Grey up with a publisher. They chose Random House because they wanted the backing and bucks of a big publishing house with a Vintage imprint that gives the trilogy the chance to be regarded as literature and not some trashy sex novel.

People are assuming a movie will be made because the books made a gajillion dollars and Universal bought the film rights.

...for at least a few million.

― Odd Spice (Eazy), Thursday, May 31, 2012 12:53 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

the $4 million or whatever film option fee has to be a relatively small fraction of the grosses from 10+ million in book sales

i thought the $4m option only gets paid out if the film gets green lighted? idk

The whole time this thread's been around I've been reading the title in the voice of Toby from the American Splendor movie. "SHLAAAVES, tell me about FIFB-TY SHADES of GREY."

"You can't have any of my White-castle Ham-burgers, SHLAAAVES"

50 worst synonyms in 50 Shades of Grey

I like my women sentient and receptive

well who doesn't, really

looool @ sentient

More words bad!