If a trailer could purr this first promo spot for Sam Taylor-Wood’s adaption of **Fifty Shades Of Grey **would have the market cornered. Here at **Empire **we’re all about celebrating the wait, and fans of E. L. James’ novel will share that tingle as they clap (wrong word) eyes on the story’s two leads, Anastasia Steele and Christian Grey for the first time proper. Beyoncé provides the breathy vocals.
brightcove.createExperiences();Steele, played by newcomer Dakota Johnson, is the heroine of the piece. She’s a journalist in the very best traditions of Jackie Collins: timid but with barely-repressed eroticism pulsing beneath the mousey fringe, and she quickly finds it un-repressed by her magnetic interviewee. Wait until he finds out she’s actually the Fake Sheik.
Channelling early ‘80s Michael Douglas is Jamie Dornan as the sexy tycoon, a bajillionaire who's clearly spent a healthy proportion of his fortune in Ann Summers. He and his co-star seem to have plenty of on-screen chemistry, and in support come Marcia Gay Harden, Rita Ora, Empire Hero of 2013 Max Martini and Jennifer Ehle. Fifty Shades Of Grey arrives on February 13, 2015.