Taylor Swift Making Feature Directing Debut for Searchlight Pictures



By Brent Lang

Executive Editor

Taylor Swift tin beryllium making her relation directorial debut with Searchlight Pictures. The singer, songwriter and manager has written an authentic script, successful bid to beryllium produced done the Oscar-prevailing workplace down “Nomadland” and “The Shape of Water.” Other cardinal details, similar a crippled and casting, are being stored beneath wraps till a aboriginal date, but landing the task from 1 of the world’s maximum a deed musicians is simply a coup.

“Taylor is simply a erstwhile successful a procreation creator and storyteller. It is simply a due pleasance and privilege to collaborate on with her arsenic she embarks successful this absorbing and caller originative adventure,” stated Searchlight presidents David Greenbaum and Matthew Greenfield. 

Swift lately person become the champion solo creator ever to beryllium honored with prime way awards astatine the MTV VMAs for her enactment on “All Too Well: The Short Film” and “The Man.” Swift is an 11-time Grammy victor and the astir effectual pistillate creator to triumph medium of the yr on 3 one-of-a-kind events. In October, Swift released “Midnights,” her tenth workplace album.

In her profession, Swift has mounted a popularity for shifting seamlessly betwixt philharmonic genres, incorporating pop, u . S ., indie people and alternate rock. Her albums dwell of “1989,” “Folklore” and “Red.”

The 14-minute manufacturing of “All Too Well: The Short Film,” which Swift wrote and directed, screened astatine the 2022 Tribeca Film Festival and Toronto International Film Festival. Swift has additionally acted connected show screen, performing successful “Valentine’s Day,” “Cats” and, this 12 months, successful David O. Russell’s “Amsterdam.” The second movies person been infamous bombs, nevertheless Swift astir effectual had tiny roles successful them.

Searchlight these days launched Mark Mylod’s “The Menu,” a darkly comedian fearfulness film, and Martin McDonagh’s “The Banshees of Inisherin,” which is expected to beryllium a premier Oscars contender. Upcoming releases encompass Yorgos Lanthimos’ consequent undertaking “And,” with Emma Stone, Jesse Plemons and Willem Dafoe.