Fifty Shades of Grey starring Jamie Dornan being guarded like Crown Jewels

Sam Taylor-Johnson revealed that the upcoming Fifty Shades Of Grey film is subject to unprecedented secrecy
Stars: Jamie Dornan and Dakota Johnson (Picture: Paul Drinkwater/NBCUniversal via Getty Images)
Rashid Razaq16 January 2015
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The new film adaptation of Fifty Shades Of Grey is subject to unprecedented secrecy, its director Sam Taylor-Johnson has revealed.

The movie, starring Jamie Dornan and Dakota Johnson, is finally complete and ready to premiere at the Berlin Film Festival next month before release in time for Valentine’s Day.

But Taylor-Johnson, who has spent 10 months editing her version of the E L James novel, said it was being guarded like the Crown Jewels. “The security is tighter than on any other film made in Hollywood,” she added.

“Ordinarily, I would have screened it for people by now, but I’m not allowed to. I haven’t even been allowed a friends and family screening.

“The studio’s frightened that someone will tweet, or put something on Facebook.”

Interviews by the director and stars are reportedly closely monitored by the producers. Dornan, who starred in dark BBC crime drama The Fall with Gillian Anderson, said he had been concerned about what fans of the blockbuster novel would think of his portrayal of bondage billionaire Christian Grey.

But he had concluded that whatever the reaction, it could not compare to Grey’s secret room, where acts of sadism and masochism take place.

He told the Daily Mail: “I should stop worrying. What can they do? Lock me in the red room of pain?”

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