‘Fifty Shades of Grey’ fans still fighting for Matt Bomer, Alexis Beidel with petitions
What happens when you combine passionate fans of a bestselling book with movie buffs and then TV fanatics? You basically get what is known as an internet dogpile, which is what happens when popular actors get rumored to star in various projects only for them to later not be cast.
This “Fifty Shades of Grey” story is one that continues to interest us from a TV perspective for the simple reason that many of the people involved here could have been great choices, but it’s hard to really go so ballistic on Charlie Hunnam and Dakota Johnson (two names very familiar to everyone thanks to their TV work) when you haven’t even seen what they can do in the movie yet. Nonetheless, this isn’t stopping people from automatically thinking that Matt Bomer (“White Collar”) and Alexis Biedel (“Gilmore Girls”) could have done the roles of Christian Grey and Anastasia Steele justice.
There are already petitions out there to try and get the movie recast, which we find to be somewhat comic since it assumes two things:
1. A franchise with millions of dollars on the line has not thought through who they want in their leading roles, and that they are idiotic for not doing what the public wants.
2. These same people would not feel like this would be akin to giving Charlie and Dakota keys to a car, then stealing it from them and laughing in their faces. Pretty cruel.
We are basically looking at the casting this way as someone from the outside, and not someone who shells out money for movies often. We want to see Matt continue to star on “White Collar,” and for Alexis to get a new regular gig on TV soon. She was great on “Mad Men,” and this medium produces quality entertainment now to the point where it is better than most motion pictures. Meanwhile, Charlie has “Sons of Anarchy” ending next year, and Dakota’s “Ben & Kate” was canceled last season and she does not have the star power behind her name to launch another show on their own. From a TV perspective, this casting makes sense since we were not going to probably see either one of these actors star on a show again anytime soon.
Yes, we’re well aware that we’re speaking selfishly, but we don’t want “White Collar” to end because Bomer suddenly becomes too busy to shoot it and various other film projects at the same time. Plus, we’ve heard that he was never in final contention in the first place.
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