Big, big news today for "Fifty Shades of Grey" fans! Author E.L. James announced on Twitter that the highly anticipated movie has a release date - August 1, 2014. This news comes just weeks after Sam Taylor-Johnson was announced as director. James also tweeted a picture recently that she was at Universal Studios in California which many fans took to mean that things were finally starting to happen. So now that a release date has been announced and a director has been assigned, maybe in the very near future official casting news will start to be announced as well. The rumor going around is that before the role of Christina Grey is revealed, Focus Features and Universal Studios will announce who will play Anastasia Steele first.
Amber Heard
She has also been mentioned a few times in the polls but fans aren't quite sold on Heard. Some feel she may not be able to pull of the young, innocent look but if she is cast she might not have any problems stripping for the camera since she has bared it all in movies such as "The Informers" and "The Rum Diary."
Other names that have been mentioned to play Anastasia Steele are Kristin Kreuk, Elizabeth Olsen, Minka Kelly, Bella Heathcote, Melissa Benoist, Selena Gomez and Shailene Woodley.
So "Fifty Shades of Grey" fans, what do you think of the latest news?
