Taylor Swift to direct her first feature-length movie - The Guardian

Taylor Swift is acceptable to marque her feature-length directorial debut with a caller movie for Searchlight Pictures.

The award-winning singer-songwriter has written an archetypal script, details of which are unknown. Swift has antecedently directed videos for All Too Well and The Man, winning MTV VMAs for both. All Too Well: The Short Film is besides eligible for adjacent year’s Oscar for champion abbreviated film.

“Taylor is simply a erstwhile successful a procreation creator and storyteller. It is simply a genuine joyousness and privilege to collaborate with her arsenic she embarks connected this breathtaking and caller originative journey,” said David Greenbaum and Matthew Greenfield, presidents of Searchlight, the institution down films specified arsenic Nomadland, Black Swan and Slumdog Millionaire.

During a discussion astatine this year’s Toronto movie festival, Swift expressed tendency to determination into movie-making. “I’d emotion to support taking babe steps forward,” she said. “And I deliberation that I’m astatine a spot present wherever the adjacent babe measurement is not a babe step. It would beryllium committing to making a film. And I consciousness similar I would conscionable perfectly emotion for the close accidental to originate due to the fact that I conscionable absolutely, perfectly adore telling stories this way.”

Swift besides said she wanted to archer “human stories astir quality emotion” and could spot herself going to a “more comedic, irreverent place”.

As an actor, Swift precocious made a tiny quality successful David O Russell’s Amsterdam and has besides starred successful Cats, Valentine’s Day and The Giver.

Next twelvemonth volition besides spot Swift embark connected a tour, her archetypal all-stadium circuit since 2018. It’s projected to beryllium the highest-grossing US circuit of each time.

After caller releases The Menu, The Banshees of Inisherin and Empire of Light, Searchlight’s different forthcoming films see 2 films from Yorgos Lanthimos, some starring Emma Stone, and Aziz Ansari’s directorial debut Being Mortal.