Scarlett Johansson Joins Cast of Wes Anderson Movie
by EG
Black Widow star Scarlett Johansson is involved in a lawsuit against her former employer Disney, but she's not putting her acting career on hold as the suit goes on. We learned this week that she's joining the cast of an upcoming movie by The Royal Tenenbaums director Wes Anderson. A film from the idol of indie movie fans is a commercial step down from the Marvel Cinematic Universe, but it will reunite Johansson with Lost inTranslation co-star Bill Murray. Read on for details.
Scarlett Johansson is going from the worlds of Marvel to the world of Wes Anderson.
The Black Widow star is the latest big name to join the filmmaker’s new movie, currently before cameras in Spain.
The movie has enlisted the usual repertoire of Anderson thespians — Adrien Brody, Bill Murray, Jason Schwartzman, Tilda Swinton — but it also features high-profile newcomers, Margot Robbie and Tom Hanks among them. Rupert Friend is also on the roll call.
Plot details for the feature, which Anderson wrote and is directing, are being kept under wraps, and Johansson’s character details were not revealed.
Anderson is expected to wrap shooting in late September, just in time for the opening of his latest movie, The French Dispatch, in October via Searchlight.
This isn’t the first time Johansson has worked with Anderson, but it will be her first in front of the camera. She previously lent her voice for the auteur’s 2018 stop-motion animated picture, Isle of Dogs.
The actress, who scored double Oscar nominations in 2020 for Marriage Story and Jojo Rabbit, is coming off of the superhero stand-alone Black Widow, which inspired a lawsuit against Disney that alleges that her contract was breached when the Marvel movie was released on Disney+ day-and-date.
Get the rest of the story at The Hollywood Reporter.