Taylor Swift is set to direct her first feature film — and she’s already written an original script.
The studio behind The Shape of Water, Searchlight Pictures, will produce the project. But the director’s chair is all hers, Variety reported last week.
This isn’t the first time Swift has written and directed a project — she did both for “All Too Well: The Short Film” which was released alongside Red (Taylor’s Version) in 2021. She has more than proven her storytelling expertise, having written or co-written the majority of the songs released over 10 solo studio albums. Earlier this year, her newly released Midnights album started breaking records within a day.
Taylor Swift has spent the past five years taking major ownership of her work — literally. She released her first two “Taylor’s Version” albums in 2021, re-recorded versions of previous music Big Machine refused to let her buy full rights to. While more installments of these re-releases will come, 2022’s Midnights was her first full album of original music published since Folklore and Evermore in 2020.
When you have 10 highly successful albums behind you and demand for your first post-pandemic tour is so high it entirely breaks Ticketmaster, you’ve earned the right to take on basically any project you want. Instantly sell out a world tour? Sure. Write and direct an original film just because you can? Go nuts. What might be next after that? Who knows!
If her worth with Searchlight goes well, we’ll likely see more of a mix of projects from Taylor Swift moving forward, which could even lead to her producing movies when she’s between albums and tours.
But only if that’s what she wants to do, of course. A successful career like hers pretty much opens up opportunities for her to follow her creative muses wherever they might take her, and there’s no doubt most of her fans will follow her and her work wherever it leads her.
