The Hollywood adaptation of mum-frapping fodder novel "Fifty Shades of Grey" has come to something of a halt this weekend when Charlie Hunnam, set to play semi-titular Christian Grey, walked away from the project.
British-born Hunnam, known to most from Sons of Anarchy and Pacific Rim, was cast a little while back as the S in the book's S&M relationship, the M being unbelievably named Anastasia Steele as currently played by Dakota Johnson. When he was first cast there was strong fan backlash as many of the nimble-fingered housewives who'd fallen for Christian Grey (in the bath when no one was in) couldn't quite picture Hunnam as their arse-paddling dream man.
