Laters, Baby: 50 Shades of Grey Sequel Officially Without a Director Kelly Conaboy · 03/26/15 09:43AM "There's something about you. I can't leave you alone. I'm like a moth to a flame," Christian Grey once told Anastasia Steele. In a statement released today, director Sam Taylor-Johnson told the 50 Shades of Grey franchise the opposite. (In a way.)