The director of Fifty Shades of Grey, the monster hit that everyone went to see but nobody seemed to like, isn't coming back for the sequel, possibly because the author who created the franchise drove her nuts throughout the making of the first one.
Sam Taylor-Johnson won't be back to direct Fifty Shades Darker, according to Variety, and neither will screenwriter Kelly Marcel, despite their film setting box office records and bringing in more than half a billion dollars.
Taylor-Johnson and Marcel haven't talked about why they're bailing on the franchise, or even if it was voluntary, but the director previously opened up about her constant battles with novelist E.L. James throughout the making of the first movie, and there have been reports that James has demanded to write the script for the sequel herself.
The only people who seemed to have less chemistry than the people working behind the scenes were the film's stars, Jamie Dornan and Dakota Johnson, who can't bail out even if they want to (and man does it seem like they want to). They're contractually obligated to appear in the film's two sequels.
This news might come as a relief to fans who didn't care for the first movie in the trilogy, some who reacted to the movie by violently pooping their pants.
