The first image of Jamie Dornan as Christian Grey in the upcoming Fifty Shades Of Grey movie was released recently but the movie almost never saw the light of day, as discussions had been underway to make it into a television series.
The much-anticipated film will be released on Valentine’s Day 2015 but Chris Albrecht, who is the CEO of U.S. network, told reporters this week that he had asked Universal for the rights to the E. L. James’s novels and planned to convert them into a series, with a season for each book.
“I’m the guy who called up Universal and said, ‘I’ll get you three years on the air as a series — let’s just do a Fifty Shades of Grey series,” he said.
“You don’t have to worry about box office, you don’t have to worry about a rating, you can tell the story the right way.”
