Is Scarlett Johansson Hollywood’s Sexiest New Director?

Posted by Paige MacGregor (paige@filmschoolrejects.com) on January 18, 2008

Scarlett Johansson, who has kept herself busy during the past year and a half prepping, promoting and filming six different movies—The Nanny Diaries (2007), The Other Boleyn Girl (2008), He’s Just Not That Into You (2008), Vicky Christina Barcelona (2008), The Spirit (2008) and Mary Queen of Scots (2009)–recently decided that she wasn’t doing enough; she wants to direct, too.

So it’s great that women are starting to take control in the director’s chair, but do we really have to lose a gorgeous face like ScarJo’s behind a camera? Apparently Drew Barrymore planned her upcoming directorial debut (the derby flick Whip It is due out later this year) as far back as 2005, when she said (according to Softpedia): “If my boobs fall down to the floor and it all starts sagging and is hideous and gross and I shouldn’t be in front of a camera, I love producing and I’d love to direct. So I’ll just go behind the camera.” Okay, well it’s about friggin time that Barrymore realized that she’s not even remotely attractive (nor has she ever been… she wasn’t even cute in E.T.), thus leaving her with absolutely nothing to make up for her horrid acting (in)abilities.

But ScarJo? As we, and Bill Murray (in what was the oddest casting call since George Clooney became Batman), well know Scarlett Johansson not only has perfectly pouty lips, but a solid bod and great heart-shaped ass. Smokin’ hot. So why should that be banished behind an unwieldy camera?

At any rate, ScarJo’s directorial debut is one of the twelve films that will make up New York, I Love You, a cinematic sister to the recently successful Paris, je t’aime. According to /film, “the shorts will take a look at “the universal theme of encountering love within the five boroughs of New York City.”

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