Scarlett Johansson joins TV – La Vanguardia

just five weeks ago was the mother of a girl, Dorothy Rose, but it appears that Scarlett Johansson has no plans to lower its intense pace to devote herself to motherhood. Indeed, while Marvel making a film in which the Black Widow will headline, the beautiful and talented actress has just signed on to star in a TV miniseries in the it will wear period clothing.

The project, which will be produced by Sony Television, will have eight episodes and will be adapted to the big screen The national customs (Alba Editorial) Edith Wharton, a novel published in 1913 that tells the story of an ambitious woman who comes to New York from a small Midwestern town, determined to become a figure in high society. Johansson is an executive producer, and Oscar winner for Dangerous Liaisons, Christopher Hampton, will write the script.

The book, which is available in Castilian, was one of the most successful of the author, who even won the Pulitzer Prize was nominated in vain for the Nobel Prize for Literature three times and is considered one of the most important voices in American literature of the early twentieth century.

The works of Wharton have been adapted numerous times to the screen, but the most recognized is still The Age of Innocence,

which in 1993 was made into a film by Martin Scorsese with Daniel Day-Lewis and Michelle Pfeiffer in the lead roles, leaving Winona Ryder a Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actress. While opted mostly for projects set in the present, the career of Scarlett went through one of its best when in 2003 he starred in the remarkable Girl with a Pearl Earring, in which she played the muse of painter Johannes Vermeer. I ignored by the Academy, won a Golden Globe Award nomination, which was twofold, as was also recognized by another memorable film, Lost in Translation, which had been released some months earlier.

Johansson currently enjoys a superb location in Hollywood, thanks to blockbuster Lucy , the film with Luc Besson has shown that the public adores him as a star action movie. The film grossed 405 million dollars (319 euros) worldwide, which adds to the success of Captain America: Winter Soldier, who amassed 714 also has completed filming The Avengers: Ultron era that surely beat in worldwide box office records when it hits theaters in May, and has lent his voice for Kaa the snake in the new version of The Jungle Book Disney released within a year.