By Drew Grant 10/10/12 1:54pm

50 Shades of Grey

Bret Easton Ellis

Bret Easton Ellis Explains His Issues With Fifty Shades Adaptation; Rewrites “Go to Nancy Meyers”

Yesterday we commented on the announcement that the uber-popular sex novel Fifty Shades of Grey would not be adapted for the large screen by American Psycho’s Bret Easton Ellis. (Even though he really, really wanted to.) Instead, the job will go to Terra Nova scribe, Kelly Marcel, which pissed Mr. Ellis off to no end.

We reached out to the Nikki Finke-fighting auteur–whose film The Canyons just got a trailer–to have him elaborate on his booing of Ms. Marcel. Read More

By Drew Grant 10/09/12 1:01pm

Twitter Feuds

50 Shades of Feud

50 Shades Of Grey Gets Screenwriter, Bret Easton Ellis Freaks Out

Anyone who has been paying attention to Bret Easton Ellis’ Twitter account this summer knows the American Psycho author has had his sights set on writing an adaptation of the world’s most popular book, EL James’ 50 Shades of Grey. He was already dream-casting the project to include Lindsay Lohan, or possibly Lena Dunham!

But after the news that TV scribe Kelly Marcel (Terra Nova) would be doing the 50 Shades of Grey script, Mr. Ellis went on a wee rampage against the upcoming film. Read More