Charlie Hunnam

50 Shades film: Charlie Hunnam and Dakota Johnson cast

Charlie Hunnam and Dakota Johnson have arrived the high-profile parts of Anastasia Steele and Christian Grey in Sam Taylor-Johnson's prospective extra large screen accommodation of scholarly sensation Fifty Shades of Grey. 

British creator EL James, whose notorious knee-trembler has sold more than 70m duplicates worldwide, uncovered the news on Twitter. She kept in touch with: "I am charmed to give you a chance to realize that the beautiful Dakota Johnson has consented to be our Anastasia in the film acclimatization of Fifty Shades of Grey." A couple of minutes after the fact, the writer included: "The lovely and skilled Charlie Hunnam will be Christian Grey in the film adjustment of Fifty Shades of Grey." 

Theory over the character of the primary throws parts for Taylor-Johnson's film has been at top power since March 2012, when the task was initially advertised. Dakota Johnson, who is the little girl of Don Johnson and Melanie Griffith, and additionally the granddaughter of Hitchcock star Tippi Hedren, was tipped for the part of Anastasia by Entertainment Weekly a month ago. The US magazine likewise anticipated that Britain's Hunnam may take the part of unusual billionaire business head honcho Christian Grey, however the Sons of Anarchy star later denied the rumour. 

Johnson is best known for modest parts in the Oscar-winning The Social Network and parody The Five Year Engagement, in which she depicts an enthusiastic adolescent lady with a high sex drive. Hunnam, who made his name in the clique US TV demonstrate Sons of Anarchy (and long preceding that, the British kids' arrangement Byker Grove), is riding high after solid audits and respectable worldwide film industry returns for Guillermo Del Toro's sci-fi movement motion picture Pacific Rim. 

Fifty Shades centres on Grey's recruitment of a junior virgin, Anastasia Steele, to be his overall compensated sex slave. It is relied upon to be the first of a trilogy dependent upon James' triptych of books, which started life as fan fiction for the gigantically fruitful otherworldly sentiment adventure Twilight yet have run onto rival their source material as far as prominence. 

Taylor-Johnson was uncovered as the astonish executive of the film form in June. The craftsman turned movie producer, whose just offer film to date is the acclaimed 2009 John Lennon biopic Nowhere Boy, apparently beat out lights of the calibre of Joe Wright, Bennett Miller and Gus van Sant.