Scarlett Johansson has agreed to make her directorial debut. The Avengers beauty will helm a film adaptation of Summer Crossing, the first novel written by Truman Capote.
Variety reports that Aldamisa will produce and sell the project at Cannes. This is the same company working on Jon Favreau’s Chef project, which Johansson is also attached to do.
Capote’s novel follows a 17-year-old girl who has a fling with a Jewish valet in 1945 New York, instead of traveling to Paris for the summer. The In Cold Blood author had actually never published the book while he was alive and threw the manuscript away. However, the pages went up for auction and the book was published in 2006.
“Several years ago I began working alongside the Capote estate and writer Tristine Skylar to adapt ‘Summer Crossing’, an inspired early work of Truman’s which has long captured my heart,” Johansson said in a statement, Deadline reports. “Being able to bring this story to the screen as my full length directorial debut is a life dream and deep privilege.”
Sin City 2: A Dame to Kill For 3D producer Oleg Boyko is co-financing, with Peter D. Graves as executive producer. Production will start early next year.
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