Fifty Shades Freed (film) Fifty Shades Freed (film) Fifty Shades Freed is a 2018 American erotic romantic drama film directed by James Foley and written by Niall Leonard, and based on E. L. James's 2012 novel of the same name. It is the third and final installment in the "Fifty Shades" film series, following "Fifty Shades of Grey" (2015) and "Fifty Shades Darker" (2017). The film stars Dakota Johnson and Jamie Dornan as Anastasia Steele and Christian Grey, respectively, and follows the couple as they marry, and must deal with Ana's former boss (Eric Johnson), who begins to stalk them. Principal photography on "Fifty
Fifty Shades Darker (film) and found fault in the change in directors, stating: Some of the greatest Hollywood melodramas (such as Douglas Sirk's "Magnificent Obsession") featured plotlines of an even more extravagant absurdity than that of "Fifty Shades Darker". Their extreme artifice became a framework for extreme ideas and extreme emotions, even in an era of extreme public reticence about what goes on in the bedroom. The freedom of the current age of sexual explicitness invites realms of characterization—and of intimate imagination—that the first film in the "Fifty Shades" series hints at and the second one utterly ignores. "Fifty Shades Darker"s indifference to its