Everything We Know About Fifty Shades Darker

Jamie Dornan and Dakota Johnson are reprising their roles of Christian and Ana, respectively, but the exciting thing is the new characters we haven't met yet. Kim Basinger and Bella Heathcote have recently been cast as Christian's exes — see the full cast here, and here is a guide to all the new characters.

Unlike the set pictures, we also have an official image of the sequel, featuring a masked Jamie Dornan as Christian Grey.

Universal revealed the release dates for both Fifty Shades sequels; Fifty Shades Darker will come out on Feb. 10, and Fifty Shades Freed will come out on Feb. 9, 2018.

In November, news broke that the sequel would be rated R, the same rating as its predecessor.

When the DVD and Blu-ray of Fifty Shades of Grey came out, we got an early look at Fifty Shades Darker with this brief tease from the extras.

Ahead of the full trailer, we got a short teaser for the second film.

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Book author E L James is keeping it in the family: her husband, Niall Leonard, wrote the Fifty Shades Darker screenplay.

After the first film's director, Sam Taylor-Johnson, declined to return to direct the sequel, James Foley took on the job.

Taylor Swift and Zayn Malik are just two of the artists on the soundtrack. Their video is sexy enough, but it's even sexier in a clip from the movie.