Former "Fifty Shades of Grey" director Sam Taylor-Johnson has landed her next project.

After announcing the 2015 Blacklist, Taylor-Johnson has jumped on board of Apex Entertainment's feature "Chappaquiddick." The feature was named on the blacklist and was written by Taylor Allen and Andrew Logan.

The film is expected to tell the story of the seven most dramatic days of Ted Kennedy's life, including the tragic car accident that killed former Robert Kennedy campaign worker Mary Jo Kopechne.

The movie marks one of the first movies about the senator, who died in 2009. The film will be produced by Mark Ciardi as well as Apex's Campbell McInnes and Chris Cowles of DMG Entertainment.

Scripts that land on the blacklist have been recognized for years and many went on to win Oscars. Among the most recent scripts that landed on the blacklist and went on to be produced were "The Imitation Game," "The King's Speech," "Slumdog Millionaire," "The Revenant" and "Spotlight." The scripts that have eventually been produced have racked up 171 Oscar nominations and 35 wins and have made over $19 billion at the box office.

Taylor-Johnson made her feature film debut in 2009 with the film "Nowhere Boy" and later went on to direct "Fifty Shades of Grey." That film went on to be a phenomenon, but due to misunderstandings and the bad response from fans, the director decided to pull out of the last two installments. Those next installments will be directed by James Foley and are slated to be released in 2017 and 2018. Taylor-Johnson has also directed a number of short films and has been nominated for two BAFTA awards.

Apex developed the script and is fully financing the project. Casting is currently under way and production is set to begin in the spring.

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