I want to know how a book like 50 shades of gray gets turned into a movie. Like the details. Like what poor screen writer had to deal with that and what is the process like?
Her name is Kelly Marcel. She's the daughter of a well respected director Terry Marcel. She got an amazing break writing the ill-fated Terra Nova series which Spielberg picked up and from which she (very bravely) bailed when it started to be taken out of her control and steered far from her original vision, leaving her to lick her wounds and head back to a terrible job at a video store. That story in itself is fascinating. She did a bunch of (uncredited) rewrites in Hollyweird and finally had a breakthrough with the recent Saving Mr Banks. She's pretty vocal in interview, so I'm sure she'll talk about the process of adapting the story in some upcoming interview somewhere.