‘Argylle’ Director’s Daughter Thought Taylor Swift Wrote the Book

Many followers assume Taylor Swift is the ghostwriter behind the novel that impressed the upcoming movie Argylle — and director Matthew Vaughn’s daughter is certainly one of them.

“I’m not a big internet guy, and it was actually my daughter who came up to me — this is the power of celebrity and the internet — and said, ‘You never told me Taylor wrote the book!’” Vaughn, 52, informed Rolling Stone in an interview revealed on Tuesday, January 16. “And I’m looking at her going, ‘What are you talking about Taylor Swift wrote the book? She didn’t write the book!’ And I was laughing because I was like, ‘It’s not true! She didn’t write the book!’ But my daughter was convinced of it.”

Argylle, which hits theaters on Friday, February 2, and stars Bryce Dallas Howard and Henry Cavill, follows reclusive writer Elly Conway (Howard) as she writes best-selling spy novels a couple of undercover agent named Argylle (Cavill), who’s on a mission to unravel a worldwide spy syndicate. Things take a flip when the plots of her books begin to mirror the covert actions of a real-life spy group.

The movie is impressed by a not too long ago revealed novel of the identical identify, which was written by an writer utilizing the pseudonym Elly Conway. The writer’s true id has remained a thriller since Apple purchased the movie rights for a reported $200 million in August 2021, with Jason Fuchs adapting the novel right into a script.

Pseudonymous authors aren’t extraordinary, however the small quantity of data recognized about Conway sparked conspiracy theories about who is definitely behind the story. Swift, 34, turned a main candidate over the previous a number of months for a number of causes.

In addition to Swift’s love for argyle sweaters, the pop star has a historical past of utilizing faux names for a few of her tasks. In 2016, she cowrote Rihanna’s “This Is What You Came For” with now-ex Calvin Harris underneath the pseudonym Nils Sjöberg. On her 2020 launch Evermore, she credited then-boyfriend Joe Alwyn for 3 songs underneath the fake moniker William Bowery. (Alwyn, 32, additionally cowrote the observe “Sweet Nothing” from her 2022 document, Midnights.)

Despite the clues, Vaughn insists that Swift shouldn’t be the secret writer of Argylle — however he appreciates the investigative prowess of Swift followers all over the place.

“There is a real book … and it’s a really good book,” Vaughn defined. “And there is an Elly Conway who wrote the book, but it’s not Taylor Swift. And I say that because I imagine Taylor Swift has a load of people trying to jump on her bandwagon left, right and center. I don’t want to be a part of that club. I did read the conspiracies and I was like, ‘Wow, they don’t leave a stone unturned!’ But it’s not Taylor Swift. She definitely didn’t write the book.”

That doesn’t imply Vaughn didn’t pull some inspiration from Swift in different areas. Vaughn admitted that the Grammy winner is the cause a Scottish Fold cat seems in the movie. Vaughn and his spouse, Claudia Schiffer, adopted one after their daughters fell in love with Swift’s Scottish Folds, Meredith Grey and Olivia Benson, whereas watching her 2020 Netflix documentary, Miss Americana.

“Ironically, what [Taylor] is responsible for is the Scottish Fold,” Vaughn shared  “I got home one day, it was Christmas, and I was like, ‘What the f–k is that noise?’ And I’m running around the house and I hear a noise, and the kids had seen a Taylor Swift documentary and there was a Scottish Fold in that, and they’d persuaded my wife, Claudia, to get them the kitten for Christmas. It was bought without my permission and hidden from me.”

While Swift might not be behind Argylle, her profession has been increasing past music and into different inventive ventures in the previous few years. In 2022, she made her directorial debut with All Too Well: The Short Film. She can also be set to direct her first characteristic with Searchlight Pictures, based mostly on a script she wrote.

“Taylor is a once-in-a-generation artist and storyteller,” Searchlight presidents David Greenbaum and Matthew Greenfield shared in a December 2022 assertion. “It is a genuine joy and privilege to collaborate with her as she embarks on this exciting and new creative journey.”

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Swift, for her half, opened up about the potential narratives she hopes to discover throughout a screening of All Too Well at Toronto’s International Film Festival in September 2022.

“I think I will always want to tell human stories about human emotion. I never say never, but I can’t imagine myself filming an action sequence,” she confessed. “If it happens one day, honestly, that’ll be funny character growth, but at this point, I could see it going in a more comedic, irreverent place.”

While sure genres are off the desk for now, that doesn’t imply followers ought to assume they know what to anticipate from Swift’s filmmaking. “I don’t always see myself telling stories about extreme, guttural heartbreak at your most formative age that debilitates you emotionally for years and then you have to develop the scar tissue in order to move on with your life, and limp your way to your typewriter and write a novel about it,” she mentioned. “I think I’ve done that.”