After a year of speculation, British director Sam Taylor-Johnson has been hired as the for the upcoming film
‘50 Shades of Grey’, a film adaptation of the first book in the Fifty Shades trilogy by author E. L. James. In late June 2013 author E. L. James and Universal Pictures finally broke the news of Taylor-Johnson being named director after one of the longest publicly announced searches for a film director in recent history.
E. L. James had been publicly searching for a director for the film adaptations of her erotic romance novels since June 2012, when Kelly Marcel (of FOX-TV’s ‘Terra Nova’) was hired to write the screenplay adaptation of the novel. Thousands of fans of the novels have anticipated this news for some time, as it is a crucial step in what has seemed to be a very slow and nearly halted production.
To give fans an idea of what is to come,
Sam Taylor-Johnson is a British director and fine art photographer and videographer. For her contributions to the arts, she was appointed OBE or Officer of the Order of the British Empire in 2011. She is best known for her work as director on the 2009 British film ‘Nowhere Boy’, a film adaptation of the childhood and early adulthood of The Beatles’ member John Lennon. The film received mostly positive reviews among critics despite mixed box office results. The film received four British Academy Film Award (BAFTA) nominations, including a nomination for Taylor-Johnson for Outstanding Debut by a British Director. She eventually married the film’s star, Aaron Taylor-Johnson. He is 23 years her junior. Her personal relationship along with her directorial accolades made her an interesting and hopefully positive selection for director by Universal and Focus Pictures and
E. L. James.
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