Universal Picks Fifty Shades of Grey Director

Fifty Shades of Grey has a director. No it's not Joe Wright. Or anyone else you, dear film nerd, are familiar with.

Sam Taylor-Johnson got the assignment. She directed Nowhere Boy, the biopic on the teenage John Lennon none of you saw. Her real claim to fame, sadly, has dick to do with any work accomplishments, but her marriage to onscreen Lennon Aaron Johnson.

That's a "big deal" because he's twenty years younger and, for some reason that gets frowned upon when the woman in the relationship is older. Totally fine if it’s the other way around, of course. Alright, alright, I'm stepping off the soapbox.

For all the press of who Universal would settle on, it's a surprise choice. Given the subject matter, banking on the book's popularity and less on who directs, let alone who stars, makes the most sense economically.

Source: The Hollywood Reporter