Taylor Swіft’ѕ Dіrectorіal Debut: The Truth About Thoѕe Screenwrіter Rumorѕ

Taylor Swift is still set to make her directorial debut of a feature film in the near future—one written by her. Here’s the truth behind rumors a second screenwriter has been brought in.

‘Tis the damn season for Taylor Swift to turn her sights on the big screen.

Three years after it was announced the Grammy winner would be making her feature film directorial debut with Searchlight Pictures on a feature film she wrote, rumors began to crop up that screenwriter Alice Birch had been brought onto the project.

A source close to production tells E! News, however, that the rumors are not true and there is still only one screenwriter on the project: Taylor herself.

Otherwise, details on the project have remained scarce since the 2022 announcement of the project. At the time, Searchlight Presidents David Greenbaum and Matthew Greenfield shared their excitement over the collaboration.

“Taylor is a once in a generation artist and storyteller,” they said in a press release. “It is a genuine joy and privilege to collaborate with her as she embarks on this exciting and new creative journey.”

While the project marks Taylor’s feature film directorial debut, she is no stranger to working on movies and directing projects.

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In addition to roles in Valentine’s Day and The Giver, the 35-year-old has starred in most of her music videos and has even directed a few over the years—including 2021’s All Too Well: The Short Film.

The project—starring Sadie Sink and Dylan O’Brien—was a 15-minute piece which brought to life the demise of the relationship detailed in Taylor’s song “All Too Well,” which is largely understood to be about her history with Jake Gyllenhaal.

Taylor Swift, Grammy Awards 2025
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Following the short film’s screening at the Tribeca Film Festival in June 2022, Taylor reflected on how she approached the creative project.

“I think I gave myself permission to completely make that jump into making a narrative short film because this is not a music video; we approached everything differently,” she explained. “You know, in shooting on 35 millimeter and all the decisions that were made to create these characters and dive into this world.”

At the time, the Midnights artist also teased setting her sights on longer projects (the announcement of her feature film would come six months later).

Dylan OBrien, Taylor Swift, Sadie Sink, All Too Well premiere
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“It would be so fantastic to write and direct something, you know, a feature,” she added during the talkback. “I don’t see it being bigger in terms of scale. I loved making a film that was so intimate and with a crew that was relatively small and just a really solid crew of people that I trusted.”

Taylor also received nothing but compliments from the short film’s star Dylan, who praised her directorial prowess.

“Her ability to just be like, ‘Go,’ is so confident, so brave,” he explained. “You can be talented and you can have great taste—of which all these things she possesses, assembling the crew and knowing exactly what she wanted to do and who she wanted to get—but the onset ability to operate, the freedom just to create that environment. That is special.”

For more facts about Taylor, read on.

1. While Taylor Swift writes all of her own music, she specifically wrote her entire Speak Now album all by herself. No co-writers, just her. The album was released in Oct. 2010, when Taylor was just 20.

2. She grew up on a Christmas tree farm with her family in Pennsylvania. She references her time there on her holiday song of the same name.

3. She’s named after James Taylor. That’s right, from one music legend to another.

4. She’s a former Abercrombie model. Just like fellow stars Channing Tatum, Jennifer Lawrence, Emma Roberts and Ashton Kutcher, T.Swift modeled for the company in 2003.

5. She gave Eric Church her first gold record. Back in 2006, she joined Rascal Flatts on their tour after Church was fired. “Actually, she called me after I got fired. I read in the paper that we were fired. She called and said ‘I want you to know that I love what you do,'” Church previously told the Arizona Daily Star. “I joked with her, ‘This is your crowd; they’re going to love you. You’re going to owe me your first gold record.’ I was kidding, but when she got her first gold record she gave me one. It came with a note: ‘Thanks for playing too long and too loud on the Flatts tour. I sincerely appreciate it. Taylor.'”

6. She has doubled-jointed elbows. During her 2016 Vogue 73 questions video, Taylor was asked if she has any “really cool or bizarre” talents. In response, she said, “OK, I’m well aware that this is not a talent, but this is like the only thing that I can do. I have double-jointed elbows.”

7. Her drink of choice? Vodka and Diet Coke, as revealed in that same Vogue video.

8. She turned off her comments on social media to “block some of the noise.” In her essay for Elle, entitled “30 Things I Learned Before Turning 30,” Taylor explained, “social media can be great, but it can also inundate your brain with images of what you aren’t, how you’re failing, or who is in a cooler locale than you at any given moment. One thing I do to lessen this weird insecurity laser beam is to turn off comments. Yes, I keep comments off on my posts. That way, I’m showing my friends and fans updates on my life, but I’m training my brain to not need the validation of someone telling me that I look [fire emojis].”

9. She was originally going to name her seventh studio album Daylight before landing on Lover. But since the album was the follow-up to reputation, the singer thought the name Daylight would be a little too on the nose. So, when Taylor wrote the song “Lover,” she decided that would be the name of the album.

10. She’s the youngest solo artist to win Album of the Year. T.Swift was just 20 when she won the top honors in 2010 for her beloved album, Fearless.

11. Taylor made history at the 2024 Grammys, becoming the first female artist to win Album of the Year four times. (For Fearless, 1989, Folklore and Midnights.)

12. The singer’s album, Lover, sold over 1 million pure copies in the United States in its first few months alone, according to Chart Data. This was the first album to reach this milestone in 2019.

13. More historic milestones! At the 2019 American Music Awards, Taylor surpassed Michael Jackson’s record to become the most awarded artist at the AMAs.

14. As a child, Taylor wanted to be a stockbroker, just like her dad! But she went on to find her true calling in music, later moving from Pennsylvania to Tennessee with her family to kick off her career.

15. She learned to play guitar around the age of 12 after learning a few chords from a technician who was fixing her computer. She then went on to write her first song, “Lucky You.”

16. She’s “obsessed” with Phoebe Waller-Bridge. While talking about her love for Fleabag, Taylor told Entertainment Weekly, “She makes you crack up, shocks you, and breaks your heart all in the span of a few minutes in that show.” Taylor later performed on the SNL episode which the Amazon Prime star hosted!

17. She wrote her own monologue for her appearance on Saturday Night Live in 2009, which doesn’t usually happen with celeb guests. Taylor clearly impressed the team with “Monologue Song (La La La).”

18. She’s been BFFs with Selena Gomez since their respective relationships with the Jonas Brothers. (ICYMI, SelGo even supported her best friend in Nov. 2021 when she returned to SNL to perform the 10-minute version of “All Too Well.”) Back in 2008, Taylor spent time with Joe Jonas, while Gomez dated his younger brother, Nick Jonas. The two quickly became close pals, and have remained tight to this day. Taylor even offered to be the flower girl in Gomez’s wedding to fiance Benny Blanco.

19. Remember the “redhead named Abigail” that Taylor references in “Fifteen,” her beloved song about growing up? Well, she and Taylor are still BFFs, too! Abigail Anderson is her name, and Taylor was a bridesmaid in her wedding in 2017.

20. She’s a godmother, holding that distinction for pal Jaime King’s son Leo Thames and BFF Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds’ daughters James, Inez and Betty.

21. Taylor has said that she may never perform her song “Soon You’ll Get Better,” which is about her mother’s cancer battle. During a Q&A session in Aug. 2019, as part of a SiriusXM Town Hall special, she shared, “It was hard to write, it’s hard to sing. It’s hard to listen to for me, but sometimes music is like that.”

22. She doesn’t have X, formerly known as Twitter, on her phone. In an interview with Billboard, Taylor explained, “Sometimes, when I open Twitter, I get so overwhelmed that I just immediately close it. I haven’t had Twitter on my phone in a while because I don’t like to have too much news. Like, I follow politics, and that’s it. But I don’t like to follow who has broken up with who, or who wore an interesting pair of shoes. There’s only so much bandwidth my brain can really have.”

23. She’s never been to therapy. “I talk to my mom a lot, because my mom is the one who’s seen everything,” Taylor told Rolling Stone in Sept. 2019. “God, it takes so long to download somebody on the last 29 years of my life, and my mom has seen it all.”

24. According to an interview, her favorite lyrics off of her Lover album are, “Ladies and gentlemen, will you please stand? / With every guitar string scar on my hand/I take this magnetic force of a man to be my lover.”

23. She’s never been to therapy. “I talk to my mom a lot, because my mom is the one who’s seen everything,” Taylor told Rolling Stone in Sept. 2019. “God, it takes so long to download somebody on the last 29 years of my life, and my mom has seen it all.”

27. She has a special place for her most emotional songs. From “All Too Well” to “The Archer,” the superstar reserves the fifth spot on her albums for a ballad.

28. She’s over hiding from cameras: In fact, she’s proudly supported boyfriend Travis Kelce at NFL games since 2023. “When you say a relationship is public, that means I’m going to see him do what he loves, we’re showing up for each other, other people are there and we don’t care,” she told Time. “The opposite of that is you have to go to an extreme amount of effort to make sure no one knows that you’re seeing someone. And we’re just proud of each other.”

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