Production problems on Fifty Shades of Grey between director Sam Taylor-Johnson and author E.L. James are well-known. While the director was excited to announce that there was going to be sequel with the returning lead stars, Jamie Dornan and Dakota Johnson, many speculated that the ongoing disagreements would have an effect on her return.

Now we are getting confirmation that the first sequel, Fifty Shades Darker, will need a new director as Taylor-Johnson has revealed that she will not be returning for to the franchise.

Of course a novel series like Fifty Shades of Grey with a huge fanbase would get a big-screen adaptation, and despite the production problems – casting, chemistry between leads Jamie Dornan and Dakota Johnson, the disagreements between director Sam Taylor-Johnson and series author E.L. James – the film was the top earner at the box office, and was one of the highest grossing R-rated movies in the month of February, even though it was widely panned by critics for those same chemistry issues and a very weak script.

It’s highly unlikely that Taylor-Johnson would want to endure another six months of harping from James over the script and vision, which is probably why she hasn’t stepped up to say she is on board for 50 Shades Darker. Now, with word that James wants to write the script for the Fifty Shades sequel, the director is already out the door. Hit the jump for more.

Fifty Shades Of Grey actor Jamie Dornan is currently out making the talk show rounds to promote his new film, which opened in theaters this weekend. One of those promotional stops was to The Graham Norton Show last night, where he came face to face with a life-sized cake of his Christian Grey character.

While standing with Norton, British actor Stephen Mangan, and Harry Potter actress Julie Walters, Dornan took a taste from the Christian Grey cake, after Norton quite awkwardly cut slices from the gut area. One of the cake’s creators was in the audience and she revealed a few details about the edible version of the character with “singular tastes” (BDSM, people!).

Watch the videos here below of Dornan on The Graham Norton Show having a taste of the aforementioned cake as well as doing the interview portion of the episode where the host asked the audience if they’ve read Fifty Shades Of Grey.

On the Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon last night, Jimmy Fallon welcomed the other half of everyone’s soon-to-be favorite romance/bondage movie. Dakota Johnson, one of the stars of Fifty Shades of Grey, joined the host for a segment called “Anything Can Be Sexy,” where they each read an inherently unsexy sentence from a stack of six cards in their most sexiest, come-hitherest voice.

Watch the video of this here below.

Fallon’s lines included a sexy take on, “Mesa called Jar Jar Binks. Mesa your humble servant.” Hot! Fallon declared he was “steaming up the lens a little bit” with that one. His other two lines were very sultry asking where to buy worms and Gold Bond powder. Johnson highlighted why she was the perfect choice for the vulnerable yet sexy Anastasia Steele, her character from Fifty Shades. She winked and giggled a bit after her each of her three lines and ended with a hair toss flourish. Her lines included subjects like old sweatpants, a fanny pack, and Red Lobster.

On the Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon last night, Jimmy Fallon had a super fun game planned for his guest, as per usual. Jamie Dornan, star of the soon-to-be biggest grossing movie of all time that doesn’t have explosions/superheroes/animation, Fifty Shades of Grey, joined the host for “Fifty Accents of Grey.” Taking turns pressing the “ultra high-tech accent generator,” both host and guest read one line each from the book, Fifty Shades of Grey.

Watch the video of this here below.

Fallon was adorable as usual, unable to maintain a straight face (one of his most endearing qualities), and pretty good with a Russian accent, sounding like Peter Stormare in Armageddon. Dornan got to do various sexually charged lines in Scottish and French as well as Count Cork Irish (different than his own real Irish accent — he was born in Belfast), while Fallon scored with Russian, Cowboy (“that’s not an accent”), and Italian (“I sound like Mario”).