Fifty Shades of Gray Pitch Meeting

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**Fifty Shades of Gray Pitch Meeting** is the fourteenth episode of the Pitch Meeting series on Screen Rant. It is the first Pitch Meeting episode to cover multiple films.

## Cast

* Producer Guy - Ryan George
* Screenwriter Guy - Ryan George

## Notes

* The video title misspells the movie title, using the American spelling of the color "Gray" instead of the English spelling/character's surname "Grey".

**Producer Guy:** So, you have a book adaptation for me.

**Screenwriter Guy:** Yes sir I do; it's called *Fifty Shades of Grey*.

**Producer Guy:** And what's it about?

**Screenwriter Guy:** Well it's kinda like porn, but with a lot more character stuff that's *very* slow-paced.

**Producer Guy:** Okay…

**Screenwriter Guy:** *[nods]*

**Producer Guy:** That's it?

**Screenwriter Guy:** Basically yeah.

**Producer Guy:** Can I get some more details?

**Screenwriter Guy:** Oh, they're not really that important.

**Producer Guy:** Okay but I'd like to hear more though.

**Screenwriter Guy:** Okay, well the main character's name is Anastasia Steele.

**Producer Guy:** Did you get that from one of those stripper name generators?

**Screenwriter Guy:** *[excited]* I did!

**Producer Guy:** Those are fun!

**Screenwriter Guy:** They are. I put my name in there and it said "Harry Ramrod".

**Producer Guy:** Hilarious. So this character, what's her deal?

**Screenwriter Guy:** So she has to interview this billionaire named Christian Grey.

**Producer Guy:** Alright.

**Screenwriter Guy:** And he kinda instantly falls madly in love with her.

**Producer Guy:** So she's like super sexy with a great personality?

**Screenwriter Guy:** Oh, no no no no no. No. No. No. … No. No. … No.

**Producer Guy:** Okay.

**Screenwriter Guy:** Yeah no her entire deal is that she's very very plain so… you know, our target audience can identify with her.

**Producer Guy:** Interesting.

**Screenwriter Guy:** Nope, not interesting.

**Producer Guy:** Right.

**Screenwriter Guy:** Anyway, we're gonna find out that Christian is into BDSM.

**Producer Guy:** Oh, well that *is* interesting.

**Screenwriter Guy:** You'd think so, but pretty much the entire first movie is him trying to get her to sign a contract.

**Producer Guy:** Whoa, "first movie"? There- There's more than one of these?

**Screenwriter Guy:** Yeah, it's a trilogy.

**Producer Guy:** Wow. What are the other ones called?

**Screenwriter Guy:** Well, the first one is called *Fifty Shades of Grey*.

**Producer Guy:** Right…

**Screenwriter Guy:** And so the second one is called *Fifty Shades Darker*.

**Producer Guy:** Oh.

**Screenwriter Guy:** And so the third one is *Fifty Shades*…

**Producer Guy:** Ah?

**Screenwriter Guy:** …*Freed*.

**Producer Guy:** *[brief pause]* Oh.

**Screenwriter Guy:** What?

**Producer Guy:** It just seemed like you were gonna do something… clever there.

**Screenwriter Guy:** It did, didn't it?

**Producer Guy:** But then it was just-

**Screenwriter Guy:** It was just nothing, yeah.

**Producer Guy:** Hm.

**Screenwriter Guy:** So anyway, Christian's gonna be a weird possessive stalker kind of guy.

**Producer Guy:** And she's gonna come to realize that he's kind of a monster?

**Screenwriter Guy:** No, she's gonna be really into it.

**Producer Guy:** Oh, she is?

**Screenwriter Guy:** Yeah and by the end of the movie she's gonna agree to do the full BDSM stuff.

**Producer Guy:** Okay.

**Screenwriter Guy:** And then she's gonna get mad because he did the full BDSM stuff.

**Producer Guy:** *[confused]* Oookay, so, she breaks up with him?

**Screenwriter Guy:** She does, and that's basically how the first movie ends.

**Producer Guy:** Wow.

**Screenwriter Guy:** So in the second movie they're gonna get back together and try to have a normal relationship.

**Producer Guy:** It's just gonna be about a man and a woman that are in a relationship?

**Screenwriter Guy:** Pretty much, yeah.

**Producer Guy:** Okay, I mean, I guess that sounds like a standard romantic comedy.

**Screenwriter Guy:** Yeah kind of, except it's not gonna be romantic, or funny, and none of the characters are interesting, or… even likable for that matter.

**Producer Guy:** That sounds kinda boring.

**Screenwriter Guy:** It does, but I did spice things up by throwing some… random bullsh*[bleep]* in there.

**Producer Guy:** Random bullsh*[bleep]*t?

**Screenwriter Guy:** Yeah like at a certain point Christian just crashes his helicopter in the middle of a forest.

**Producer Guy:** Oh, that *is* pretty random.

**Screenwriter Guy:** Right?

**Producer Guy:** And we're gonna see him struggle to get back home?

**Screenwriter Guy:** Actually no, that's gonna be super easy, barely an inconvenience.

**Producer Guy:** Really?

**Screenwriter Guy:** Yeah, he's just gonna show up back home, and then… we're never gonna talk about it again.

**Producer Guy:** Wow.

**Screenwriter Guy:** We're also gonna have Anastasia's boss randomly try to rape her.

**Producer Guy:** *[disturbed]* Oh, my god.

**Screenwriter Guy:** Yeah and he's gonna stalk them like the whole movie.

**Producer Guy:** Kinda like Christian did.

**Screenwriter Guy:** Yeah but this time Anastasia's not into it.

**Producer Guy:** Gotcha.

**Screenwriter Guy:** So this guy's gonna have snuck into a masquerade ball at the Grey mansion, taken a picture of a family picture, printed out that picture and then later burned it with a cigarette because he's angry.

**Producer Guy:** That seems overly complicated.

**Screenwriter Guy:** Oh, very much so.

**Producer Guy:** Seems like he coulda just printed a picture of Christian from the internet and put a cigarette through that.

**Screenwriter Guy:** Could have yeah.

**Producer Guy:** Or, you know, not done that at all.

**Screenwriter Guy:** Also a possibility.

**Producer Guy:** Huh.

**Screenwriter Guy:** Then there are a couple of characters that are mad that Christian isn't sleeping with them anymore. And that brings us to the third movie.

**Producer Guy:** What happens in that one?

**Screenwriter Guy:** Well they're married now so they go on a honeymoon.

**Producer Guy:** Right.

**Screenwriter Guy:** So… yeah.

**Producer Guy:** Okay. I mean, again it seems like there's not much going on storywise.

**Screenwriter Guy:** Yeah there's not, so… I threw some random bullsh*[bleep]* in there.

**Producer Guy:** Oh you did!

**Screenwriter Guy:** Yeah the characters that are mad about not being the sexual partners of the protagonists are gonna come back in like, the last ten minutes of the movie.

**Producer Guy:** Wow.

**Screenwriter Guy:** Aaaaaaaand that's it.

**Producer Guy:** That's it?

**Screenwriter Guy:** What do you think?

**Producer Guy:** Well I mean they say sex sells, so… let's put that theory to the test.

**Screenwriter Guy:** Great.

*[cut to headline: **Fifty Shades Trilogy to Pass $1 Billion at Worldwide Box Office Today**]*