Film Director For Upcoming Fifty Shades Of Grey Flick Revealed

The director for the film adaptation of steamy novel Fifty Shades Of Grey has been revealed.

Artist-turned-film-maker Sam Taylor-Johnson is to sit in the canvas chair for the movie, Breakingnews.ie reports.

Fifty Shades author EL James revealed the news to her fans on Twitter. She wrote: "I’m delighted & thrilled to let you guys know that Sam Taylor-Johnson has agreed to direct the film of Fifty Shades Of Grey."

The novel, dubbed "mummy porn" across the world, sold more than 5.3 million copies to become the best-selling book of all time in the UK.

Taylor-Johnson is a relatively unknown director but has worked with similarly-controversial films before.

In 2006 she made a short film which featured a man pleasuring himself in the middle of Death Valley.

Sam Taylor-Johnson, Pic: IMDB

She won praise for her feature film debut Nowhere Boy (a tale of John Lennon's early life) and married its star actor, Aaron Johnson, despite being 23 years older them him. 

She is also well-known for her videos and photography.