Is Fifty Shades Of Grey Director Sam Taylor-Johnson To Pull Out Of The Sequels?

There’s no denying that the erotic thriller FIFTY SHADES OF GREY has become a huge box office success as the raunchy film dominated cinemas at the weekend with ticket sales of £13.5 million since its release on Friday, but despite this, could the director of the movie Sam Taylor-Johnson pull out of the sequels?

Well according to The Sun, the British director is keen to leave the franchise due to her constant on-set feuds with the author, despite previously claiming last week that she had agreed to work on the sequels.

The film has been an unparalleled box office smash and it has completely outstripped the competition – taking in more in ticket sales than the rest of the top 10 films combined and becoming the most successful 18-certificate film ever in the UK and Ireland, but it seems this may not prove to be enough to keep the director on board for the rest of the franchise. 

But the reported tensions between Fifty Shades Of Grey’s director Sam Taylor-Johnson and the books’ writer E.L. James have meant the two follow-up films’ may have to be made under a different filmmaker.

According to The Sun, a senior film insider told newspaper’s Dan Wootton: ‘Sam won’t be back for the Fifty Shades sequels. She wants out and Universal knows that’s the right decision. Her relationship with Erika has become absolutely toxic – they despise each other and blame each other for the problems with the film.’

E.L. James, the author of the infamous erotic thriller books signed a £3 million deal with Universal and Focus Films giving them the rights to her trio of books, but she was also given creative control of the movies. Could the author and director’s creativity have clashed to  breaking point? 

There is no official confirmation from the studios yet that there will be any sequels, but given the box office success of the first adaptation, we would be very surprised if there wasn’t.

So now it seems we will have to wait and see if there will be more films from the franchise, whether Jamie Dornan and Dakota Johnson who play Christian Grey and Anastasia Steele respectively will reprise their roles and now we will be pondering if Sam Taylor-Johnson will be sitting back in the director’s chair for the next two…

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