Michael De Luca says Fifty Shades of Grey film won’t be as explicit as the book

With the adaptation of Fifty Shades of Grey coming to the big screen next year under the direction of Sam Taylor-Johnson and starring Dakota Johnson and Jamie Dornan, Michael De Luca who serves as Producer on hotly anticipated film, has confirmed that the film will not be as sexually explicit as the novel.

Speaking at the Sundance Film Festival, De Luca told Deadline "We're very conscious of not making anything gratuitous or exploitive while being faithful to the stories of the book and the fans of the book.

We're going to give them what they expect, which is an intense and erotic love story. Obviously the film can't be as explicit as the book.

A picture is worth 1,000 words. So to be erotic on screen means I think an image is going to have way more power than reading the words on a page.

The book is explicit by design because the author wanted to get inside of the female character and wanted to in detail go through her experience.

On a literary level that was necessary but on film it is a whole different medium. In any adaption of a book, you have to lose some stuff and you have to combine some stuff.

In the dramatic arch of a two-hour or 90-minute movie, it's a three-act structure."

Fifty Shades of Grey hits cinemas on February 13 2015 and also stars Jennifer Ehle, Max Martini and Marcia Gay Harden.

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