Universal & Focus Features Snag Erotic ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’ Novel

Even if the phenomenon of The Twilight Saga is coming to an end, that doesn’t mean the influence of the books by Stephenie Meyer are done infiltrating Hollywood. There a popular series of e-books (coming soon to paperback) that starts with Fifty Shades of Grey. The story follows an impending college graduate named Anastasia Steele, who strikes up an S&M romance with successful young entrepreneur Christian Grey, the physical and emotional dominant to her submissive personality. It spawned as fan-fiction inspired by Twilight and is now insanely popular amongst female readers, which means it’s prime for the big screen. Described as “Mommy porn” from author E.L. James, studios were in a bidding war last week to snag the rights to this book, which also includes the second and third novels, Fifty Shades Darker and Fifty Shades Freed, but Variety reports Universal and Focus Features were the ones who came out on …