While Scarlett Johansson is rumoured for just about every major role under the sun, she’s now picked one we haven’t heard of before, which will allow her to go alien as an extra terrestrial seductress.
The movie, Under The Skin, is selling at the American Film Market, with THR reporting that Johansson is attached to play ‘an alien on earth, disguised as the perfect aesthetic form of a mesmerizing woman. She scours remote highways and desolate scenery looking to use her greatest weapon to snare human prey — her voracious sexuality… She is deadly efficient, but over time becomes drawn to and changed by the complexity of life on earth. With this new found humanity and weakening alien resolve, she finds herself on a collision course with her own kind. Taking her point of view throughout, the film presents a unique look at our world through alien eyes.
Umm, isn’t that basically Species, but with Sil being a bit more sympathetic? However I’m sure there a thousands out there for whom the idea of Johansson playing a character with a voracious sexuality is a dream come true, even if she does want to kill you after shagging you.
Sexy Beast helmer Jonathan Glazer is down to direct, from a script he wrote with Walter Campbell. Glazer managed to bring new life to gangster flicks, so lets hope his alien movie is slightly less generic than it sounds.