Fifty Shades Freed the UK the novel sold over two million copies. Sam Taylor-Johnson, the director of the film adaptation of the first installment of the book series, "Fifty Shades of Grey", confirmed on 6 February 2015 that both "Fifty Shades Freed" and the second book in the trilogy, "Fifty Shades Darker", will also be adapted for film. The film was released on 9 February 2018. In November 2015, Universal Studios announced that both films will be shot back-to-back with principal photography scheduled to commence in early 2016. Fifty Shades Freed Fifty Shades Freed is the third and final installment of the erotic
Fifty Shades of Grey incompatible. Devastated, she breaks up with Christian and returns to the apartment she shares with Kate. The "Fifty Shades" trilogy was developed from a "Twilight" fan fiction series originally titled "Master of the Universe" and published episodically on fan-fiction websites under the pen name "Snowqueen's Icedragon". The piece featured characters named after Stephenie Meyer's characters in "Twilight", Edward Cullen and Bella Swan. After comments concerning the sexual nature of the material, James removed the story from the fan-fiction websites and published it on her own website, FiftyShades.com. Later she rewrote "Master of the Universe" as an original piece, with the