As of late, any news on this particular site involving Scarlett Johansson invariably pertains to The Avengers, in which she reprises her Iron Man 2 role and brings a dash of leather-wearing femininity to the ass-kicking and derring-do that gets done in an ensemble superhero movie. Today, though, we some Johansson-centric news not involving Marvel heroes, as the first set photos from Under the Skin have made their way online, all featuring Johansson in costume. That costume may look fairly ordinary, but in the film, she plays Isserley, an alien disguised as a human, using her obvious sexuality to lure hitchhiker's into her grasp for some strange extraterrestrial purposes. That description may have brought to mind Species, in which Natasha Henstridge played an alien just trying to get laid, but Under the Skin is adapted from the novel by Michel Faber, and promises to be far more substantial than a spoiler-free synopsis would suggest.
These set photos debuted at In Case You Didn't Know, but it was The Playlist that brought them to our attention.
Remember when the now-world famous actress wasn't an international sex symbol, but just that girl who played the older sister in Home Alone 3? Me neither.
Faber's novel was adapting into screenplay form by Walter Campbell. The film is directed by Jonathan Glazer, a music video director who made his feature debut with the stylish gangster drama Sexy Beast in 2000, and followed it up with the dramatic thriller Birth, starring Nicole Kidman, in 2004.
Under the Skin does not yet have a release date and the rest of the cast is unannounced, but we can expect the film to drop some time in 2012.
