After dominating the pop charts, Taylor Swift embarks on her next adventure: the cinema.
Swift, whose 10th studio album “Midnights” was released earlier this year, will make her directorial debut with Searchlight Pictures.
According to a press release from Searchlight Pictures, Swift has already penned an original screenplay for the project. The press release says more details are forthcoming.
“Taylor is a once-in-a-generation artist and storyteller,” Searchlight presidents David Greenbaum and Matthew Greenfield said in the statement. “It is a true joy and privilege to collaborate with her as she embarks on this exciting new creative journey.”
This turn to Hollywood is a departure for the winner of 11 Grammy Awards — but perhaps not unexpected, given her work on the 14-minute short film for the song “All Too Well,” released alongside the reissue of “Red.” , his fourth album.
Swift directed the short, which starred Dylan O’Brien and Sadie Sink. In a behind-the-scenes video posted Dec. 8, Swift shared a look at her directing process. “Loved every second and will always remember it. Everything. Too. Well,” she wrote in the caption of an Instagram post to the video.
Thanks to her work on “All Too Well: The Short Film,” Swift won Best Direction at the 2022 VMA Awards. She also won the same award for “The Man” in 2020. That makes her the only solo artist ever to be honored with two Best Direction awards.
When “All Too Well: The Short Film” screened at the 2022 Tribeca Film Festival in June, Swift gave a glimpse of her music-making skills and revealed how she’s turned moments of loss into art.
“It’s because a lot of my toughest times and times of extreme grief or loss have been galvanized into what my life looks like now,” she said at the event. “I’m very happy with my current life, to be able to create with people like you, to be able to talk with someone like you… It all came from something that was difficult to go through.”
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