"Fifty Shades of Grey" author EL James will have the last word “Literally”. When fans finally get to see the first installment of a hoped-for Fifty Shades trilogy — tracking to open on Valentine's Day weekend at $60 million or more they will be treated to the ending favored by James, who wrote the steamy books, rather than the version favored by director Sam Taylor-Johnson as well as some others involved with the project, according to sources with ties to the film.

James, whose real name is Erika Leonard, was granted exceptional control by Universal after the studio bought the rights to the material for a reported $5 million in a frenzied auction in March 2012.

As anyone who's read the books knows, the first volume ends after Anastasia Steele (Dakota Johnson) asks her wealthy lover, Christian Grey (Jamie Dornan), to give her a good shellacking. When he obliges, she recoils and leaves him. In the ending favored by James, who wrote the original film script with Kelly Marcel (Saving Mr. Banks), the final word in the film is "stop." But in the ending favored by the director, which apparently came from a rewrite by Patrick Marber (Notes on a Scandal, Closer), the last word in the movie was "red," which is used in the trilogy as a "safe word."