Scarlett Johansson

The Nanny Diaries [completed, out 2007]

Scarlett plays Annie Braddock, a nanny hired to a rich New York family where she battles their dysfunction while juggling a new romance and a bratty child. Paul Giamatti stars alongside Laura Linney [The Life of David Gale].

I’m assuming Chris Evans [Fantastic Four] is Scarlett’s love interest. Alicia Keys also appears. I’m glad to see Johansson in something funny again alongside some great actors.

The Other Boleyn Girl [post-production, out 2007]

The story of Anne and Mary Boleyn, two sisters who fought for the affection of King Henry VIII. Scarlett plays the eldest sister, Mary, who had an affair with King Henry, played by Australia’s Eric Bana, but was dumped for Anne.

Anne Boleyn, played by Natalie Portman, was later executed for adultery, so expect this movie to be an historical account with some juicy love triangles throughout.

Mary Queen of Scots [pre-production, out 2008]

Scarlett plays Queen Mary I of Scotland. The movie revolves around her tense relationship with her cousin, Queen Elizabeth I of England. No news on co-stars or who’s directing it.

Napoleon and Betsy [announced, probably out 2008]

The story of French Emperor Napoleon who, during his exile in Saint Helena from 1815 to 1821, falls in love with a young British girl. Whilst imprisoned on the island, Napoleon spent much of his time writing his memoirs and dying from stomach cancer.

A disproved historical rumor was that Napoleon was fatally poisoned with arsenic. Will the movie include that, and will Scarlett be his killer? Who’s going to play Napoleon? Danny DeVito?

Amazon [announced, probably out 2008]

Apparently this movie was Scarlett’s idea, who should receive an Oscar for just thinking it up. Johansson suggested it to screenwriters, Alex Kurtzman and Bob Orci, while working on The Island. The pair, who will produce Amazon, hired Dirk Blackman and Howard McCain to write the movie.

Set in 200 BC, Scarlett seeks vengeance against an army that destroyed her Amazonian village. If we get to see Scarlett tough-talking and leather-laced battling the big dogs, all good.

“This will be a movie that falls between The Wild Bunch and The Seventh Samurai, “Blackman said.

Brilliant [in production, out 2009]

A heist movie starring Scarlett as a jewel thief who teams up with a conman to pull of ‘The Heist of the Century’.

This is the ten minute Director’s Cut version that’s exclusive on iTunes. It stars Scarlett Johansson alongside a smitten Justin Timberlake. Warning, there is swearing.

Nick Cassavetes, who wrote and directed Alpha Dogs which stars JT, wrote the dialog for What Goes Around, which also stars Alpha Dogs co-star, Shawn Hatosy.

Watching the clip does beg the question, Who would take Shawn Hatosy over Timberlake?

Over the Superbowl weekend, Page Six reports that Leah Remini [from that terrible sitcom, King of Queens] acted a complete bitch towards Scarlett Johansson when she attempted niceties.

According to our witness, “Scarlett politely waved to Leah and said, ‘It’s so nice to see you, how are you?’ Leah gave her a nasty look and said, ‘We’ve never met before,’ and walked off - she was so rude and abrupt. Scarlett just looked confused.”

Where did that come from?

Well, for your information, Leah is a raging Scientologist, and has probably caught wind of Scarlett’s non-interest in the ‘religion’.

Leah also believes that Psychiatry was the birth child of Adolf Hitler, so should we just continue ignoring what she has to say?

When asked about the reported romance with Justin Timberlake in Miami last week, Scarlett was quick to deny anything further than a business relationship.

“We did a music video together and we have a lot of friends in common,” she said to Ryan Seacrest. “The last thing I want to think about is what people think about my personal life.”

Although, that isn’t actually much of a denial.

She says they did a video together, true.
They have friends in common, sure.
And she doesn’t want to think about what people think about her personal life.

Wait, there’s no denial at all! Scarlett just danced around that one! And we ALL know what a non-committal response like that means… it’s true!

I don’t think there is any doubt at all now, that this did happen.

Scarlett appearing at this year’s Grammy Awards, alone.

While at the Ocean Drive Super Bowl party on the weekend, L Ron Hubbard’s Jesus, Tom Cruise, attempted an impromptu Scientology reading to Ms Johansson.

Apparently shortly after Tom Cruise and stepford wife, Katie Holmes, joined Scarlett backstage, “She bolted,” says a witness. “They got her in an SUV pretty fast.”

We can only speculate that Cruise was trying to enroll Scarlett in his alien fan-club since he tried it in 2005 when she was up for a roll in M:i:III. “[Cruise] took me into this room, which was stifling hot, and was showing me all kinds of info about joining the church,” Johansson told a RadarOnline source at the time.

Tommy may have thought that 2 hour session wasn’t enough to convince Scarlett and so tried again on the weekend.

Scarlett heading in to Superbowl XLI on Sunday before her big night with JT.

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We’ve all been wondering who would get JT after his split with Cameron Diaz, Jessica Biel or our lovely Scarlett Johansson. We’re pleased to announce that Scarlett is dead ahead topping Jessica’s New Year’s fling with an entire weekend alone with the singer.

Apparently the pair hit it off during the filming of Justin’s video for What Comes Around. Now on the weekend things got steamy at a SuperBowl afterparty at Club Makai in Miami.

“They were talking, dancing, holding hands all night - it was very cozy,” say eye-witnesses. “Then, as they left through the back, Justin was leaning against the wall and Scarlett came up, leaned into him and did a sexy, little dance, grinding into his body.”

At 3:30am the pair snuck out to spend the night together.

If that’s not proof enough, reports are also circulating of Timberlake being spotted leaving Scarlett’s bungalow at the Shoreclub hotel around 7am.