SUMMER CROSSING (Scar-Jo to Direct)

• SUMMER CROSSING WITH AN AVENGER

Scarlett Johansson as Black Widow

Scarlett Johansson has got a big year ahead. She will beappearing in Cameron Crowe’s We Bought A Zoo, Jonathan Glazer's sci-fi UnderThe Skin and a little something called The Avengers.

However, the Beautiful talent actress will be steppingbehind the camera, and taking the directorial chair on Summer Crossing.

The film is an adaptation of Truman Capote’s first novel ofthe same name, set in New York in 1945. The story follows Grady, a 17-year-oldProtestant from a wealthy family, as she enters a passionate (and somewhatcontroversial) affair with a Jewish parking attendant.

“It’s about that first love you have that’s sort of vicious,in a sense,” Johansson told Vanity Fair. “It’s a hard sell because it’s aperiod film, it takes place in New York, and there’s no room for a big name.We’ll see. Fingers crossed.”

The star also revealed that she won’t be appearing in thefilm herself, and will instead be focusing on the business of pointing thecamera. However, despite the confidence required to get this one off theground, Johansson has also spoken of the doubts that plagued her ahead of WeBought A Zoo.

“I went into We Bought A Zoo and I didn’t know how to do it,exactly,” she said. “I had ideas and things I wanted to do, but I was a littlebit raw. I felt out of practice and a bit exposed. I was feeling veryprotective of myself. But Cameron’s world was very welcoming.”

Summer Crossing is expected to arrive in 2014.