Fifty Shades Of Grey’s Sam Taylor-Johnson is making a “Ted Kennedy thriller”
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Fifty Shades Of Grey director Sam Taylor-Johnson has found her next project, and it’s significantly less sexy than that one. The film will be titled Chappaquiddick, and in a convenient bit of timeliness, it’ll be based on a script that just made the 2015 Blacklist. For anybody who’s younger than, say, 50 and doesn’t immediately recognize what the name Chappaquiddick is a reference to, the movie will be about an incident in 1969 in which a young Senator Ted Kennedy drove a car off a bridge, swam to safety, and left his passenger (a young woman named Mary Jo Kopechne) behind. Kopechne died from suffocation after a few hours, and Kennedy neglected to tell anyone about what happened until the next morning, long after it was too late to save her.