When Sam Taylor Johnson refuses to continue his legacy in directing the movie adaptations of a best- selling erotic novel "The Fifty Shades of Grey" Trilogy,the producers and its author started their search to replace him. Several names were mentioned but none of them have signed a deal yet. The three finalist for the film's director posts were James Floey, Tanya Wexler and Mark Pellington.
According to yahoonews.com, controversies circled the making of the first movie when director Sam openly shared her struggle working with the novel's author, EL James. The author was apparently very "involved and opinionated" with the director's execution and adaptation of the novel.
Among the three possible directors, James Foley seems to have the upper hand and more likely to snag the gig and direct the film's second installment, "Fifty Shades Darker", according to a report by eonline.com.
Foley has quite an impressive directing portfolio with 12 episodes of "House of Cards", Several films such as "At Close Range", "Glengarry Glenn Rose", "Who's That Girl" and "Perfect Stangers". He also directed music videos for Madonna, who's part of "Who's That Girl."
"Fifty Shades Darker" is the sequel on E.L James' "Fifty Shades og Grey" which tell s the story of a billionaire CEO, Christian Grey (Jamie Dornan) and college student, Anastasia Steele (Dakota Johnson), whose relationship started in BDSM as a dominant and submissive. On the second film installment, Anastasia must face Christian's issues with his previous lovers as well as deal with her new job after graduating from college.
While the crew is still looking for its new director, it's first screen writer will also be replaced by the Niall Leonard, husband of E.L. James, in writing the screen play for "Fifty Shades Darker."
Fifty Shades Darker will be released in theaters February 10, 2017 while its last installment, Fifty Shades Freed will be shown in February 9, 2018.
