Scarlett Johansson Gets Lots of Roles

Posted by Paige MacGregor (paige@filmschoolrejects.com) on August 20, 2007

While many of Scarlett Johansson’s fans will be disappointed to learn that the actress won’t be playing Jenna Jameson in the planned biopic adaptation of the book by the porn star/“actress” titled How to Make Love Like a Porn Star, Johansson will be making an appearance in not one…not two… not even three—but four major motion pictures set for release in 2009.

Johansson’s agent made the starlet’s stance on the Jameson film project eminently clear in a statement given to People.com: “Scarlett has never seen a script nor been approached about this project. She also has no interest in playing this role.”

Apparently, Johansson isn’t interested in pretending to be a whore… she’d rather just diddle everyone in Hollywood while she happens to score a ridiculous number of roles in upcoming movies (in recent memory, Johansson has been linked to Josh Hartnett, Derek Jeter, Wilmer Valerrama, Jared Leto, Benicio Del Toro, Kiera Knightley, Justin Timberlake, Ryan Reynolds and an unnamed female “friend”).

The totally not promiscuous actress will appear in New Line Cinema’s upcoming motion picture He’s Just Not That Into You, directed by Ken Kwapis (The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, License to Wed).

In October Scarlett will show her true colors in a Frank Miller (Sin City, 300) adaptation of Will Eisner’s film noir comic strip series, playing the dangerously seductive femme fatale Silken Floss. Johansson, currently in final negotiations with Miller over the part—the director is adamant about casting an actress who will do justice to Silken’s traditionally sexy curves—joins already-cast veteran badass Samuel L. Jackson.

Johansson is also scheduled to begin shooting director John Curran’s (The Painted Veil) long-in-development Mary, Queen of Scots in March 2008. An independent film produced by Melanie Johansson and Alexandra Milchan in conjunction with Relativity Media, Scots is a love story based on the early life of the legendary queen, played by Johansson.

Moving from crown to crown jewels, the Lost in Translation star will also appear as a jewel thief in director Samuel Bayer’s Brilliant, a heist film in which Johansson teams up with a conman in an attempt to pull of the biggest jewel heist in history.

Johansson’s latest films, Justin Chadwick’s The Other Boleyn Girl and Woody Allen’s Spanish Project, are set for release in early 2008. The only question that remains: who will Johansson screw next?

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