50 Shades of Grey Devotees, Meet Your New Director

The news comes this afternoon like so many other items of this sort. By way of Deadline’s indefatigable Long Island-based scoop meister Mike Fleming Jr.

There has been no shortage of ridiculous speculation about who would get the plum job of directing the Hollywood film adaptation of 50 Shades of Grey. Absolutely none of it involved a British woman with a unisex name, four children (from two different marriages) and nary a mainstream movie credit to her name.

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