Coming Soon - Location filming in France for the sequel Fifty Shades Darker was
overshadowed on July 14 when a horrific terror attack on Nice during a
Bastille Day celebration claimed the lives of 85 innocent people and
injured hundreds of others. The tragedy led to security concerns for the
cast and crew making the Universal Pictures film, and Jamie Dornan talked to us exclusively today at a press junket for Anthropoid and The 9th Life of Louis Drax about how he dealt with the harrowing event.
“It
was, as you can imagine, a bloody awful situation,” Dornan told
ComingSoon.net. “You’d be affected by it wherever you were in the world.
Most of the cast and crew were actually staying in Monaco so there’s a
little bit of distance there, but my family and I wanted a little bit
more space so we were actually staying in Nice. The first thing that
everyone has to work out was is everybody safe, is the whole crew and
cast safe. Then you have the strange thing of the next day still trying
to make this movie that’s costing millions of dollars to put together.
There’s this contractual obligation to work the next day, which is a
very strange environment to work in. It felt very frivolous and wrong to
be making something as silly as a f**king movie the day after something
like that happened.”
While Dornan seemed genuinely shaken by that experience, he was a bit more upbeat about how Fifty Shades Darker is progressing, despite the replacement of original director Sam Taylor-Johnson with James Foley and screenwriter Kelly Marcel with Niall Leonard.
“The general feeling on set has altered, definitely, because the energy of the director is at the top of the pyramid and that trickles down to the whole 200-strong crew,” Dornan said. “Some elements have shifted somewhat, but it’s still a lot of the same recurring crew and the actors are the same, much of it doesn’t really change. Regardless of changing the director or changing the screenwriter, I think when you’re two or three -or back-to-back- into a franchise everyone’s relaxed a little bit, everyone can enjoy it a bit more because the pressure’s slightly off, so I think there’s definitely an element of that.”
Jamie Dornan and Dakota Johnson are set to return as Christian Grey and Anastasia Steele in both Fifty Shades Darker and the third film, Fifty Shades Freed. Expanding upon the events set in motion in Fifty Shades of Grey, the films will again aim to become the motion-picture events for Valentine’s Day 2017 and 2018. Michael De Luca and Dana Brunetti, alongside E L James, also return to produce.
Eric Johnson, Bella Heathcote, Luke Grimes, Eloise Mumford, Max Martini, Tyler Hoechlin, Rita Ora, Marcia Gay Harden, Robin Lee, Fay Masterson and Hugh Dancy also star in Fifty Shades Darker. James Foley is directing “Darker” and “Freed,” which are penned by E L James’ husband, Niall Leonard.
An erotically charged romance, the Fifty Shades of Grey franchise has capitalized on it’s naughty-but-not-too-naughty aesthetic to the tune of more than $570 million worldwide.
While Dornan seemed genuinely shaken by that experience, he was a bit more upbeat about how Fifty Shades Darker is progressing, despite the replacement of original director Sam Taylor-Johnson with James Foley and screenwriter Kelly Marcel with Niall Leonard.
“The general feeling on set has altered, definitely, because the energy of the director is at the top of the pyramid and that trickles down to the whole 200-strong crew,” Dornan said. “Some elements have shifted somewhat, but it’s still a lot of the same recurring crew and the actors are the same, much of it doesn’t really change. Regardless of changing the director or changing the screenwriter, I think when you’re two or three -or back-to-back- into a franchise everyone’s relaxed a little bit, everyone can enjoy it a bit more because the pressure’s slightly off, so I think there’s definitely an element of that.”
Jamie Dornan and Dakota Johnson are set to return as Christian Grey and Anastasia Steele in both Fifty Shades Darker and the third film, Fifty Shades Freed. Expanding upon the events set in motion in Fifty Shades of Grey, the films will again aim to become the motion-picture events for Valentine’s Day 2017 and 2018. Michael De Luca and Dana Brunetti, alongside E L James, also return to produce.
Eric Johnson, Bella Heathcote, Luke Grimes, Eloise Mumford, Max Martini, Tyler Hoechlin, Rita Ora, Marcia Gay Harden, Robin Lee, Fay Masterson and Hugh Dancy also star in Fifty Shades Darker. James Foley is directing “Darker” and “Freed,” which are penned by E L James’ husband, Niall Leonard.
An erotically charged romance, the Fifty Shades of Grey franchise has capitalized on it’s naughty-but-not-too-naughty aesthetic to the tune of more than $570 million worldwide.
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