
animation project on February 9, 2018, and it also opens one week before Black Panther on February 16, 2018.įifty Shades of Grey followed the illicit affair struck up by young billionaire Christian Grey ( Jamie Dornan), and naive college student Anastasia Steele ( Dakota Johnson). Fifty Shades Freed is going up against an untitled Warner Bros. Fifty Shades Darker will go up against 20th Century Fox's The Mountain Between Us and Warner Bros.' The LEGO Batman Movie in February 2017. Universal has already set release dates for both projects, with Fifty Shades Darker arriving on February 10, 2017, and Fifty Shades Freed arriving on February 9, 2018. James, who reportedly has a lot of creative control over the adaptations. There were reports that the filmmaker and writer often clashed with author E.L. Fifty Shades of Grey director Sam Taylor-Johnson and writer Kelly Marcel revealed shortly after the first movie's release that they were not coming back for the sequels. This new report reveals that he has also signed on to write Fifty Shades Freed. James' husband, British writer Niall Leonard, signed on in April to write the screenplay adaptation for Fifty Shades Darker.

Today, we have a new report from The Wrap, revealing that James Foley has finalized his deal to direct both sequels, which will in fact be shot back-to-back.Īuthor E.L. James' novel trilogy, Fifty Shades Freed, and that the studio was trying to decide whether or not they should shoot Fifty Shades Darker and Fifty Shades Freed back-to-back.

That report also revealed that the filmmaker is in the running to direct the third adaptation of E.L. Back in August, we reported that Universal Pictures' front runner to direct the Fifty Shades of Grey sequel, Fifty Shades Darker, is James Foley, but negotiations hadn't started quite yet.
