Scarlett Johansson has plenty of experience being in front of the camera, but announced plans back in May 2013 to make direct her first feature film, an adaptation of Truman Capote's "lost" novel, "Summer Crossing." This year, the 29-year-old actress will likely make her directorial debut after years of anticipation.
"Summer Crossing" follows the story of a 17-year-old girl who stays in New York during a brutally hot summer while her parents jet off to Paris, where she begins a relationship with a Jewish parking attendant. Capote never published it and trashed it, though it was later discovered and auctioned off in 2004, published with the blessing of his former editor, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
"Several years ago I began working alongside the Capote estate and writer Tristine Skylar to adapt Summer Crossing, an inspired early work of Truman's which has long captured my heart...Being able to bring this story to the screen as my full-length directorial debut is a life dream and deep privilege," Johansson said in a statement released back in May.
Production of "Summer Crossing" is slated to begin in the first half of this year.
Johansson has previously directed a short film starring Kevin Bacon, "These Vagabond Shoes," originally meant to be part of the 2009 anthology, "New York, I Love You."
