EXCLUSIVE, UPDATED WITH ADDITIONAL DETAILS, 10:15 a.m.: Scarlett Johansson (Black Widow) has signed on to star in My Mother’s Wedding — the first feature directed by Oscar-nominated actress Kristin Scott Thomas (Slow Horses), which is currently in production.Details with regard to the film’s plot have thus far been kept under wraps, though we know Thomas wrote it with John Micklethwait.
Sienna Miller, Emily Beecham and Freida Pinto will also star in the pic produced by Finola Dwyer and Steven Rales.Johansson notched both of her two Oscar nominations in 2020 for her turns in Noah Baumbach’s custody-battle drama Marriage Story and Taika Waititi’s satire Jojo Rabbit.
She most recently reprised her role as Natasha Romanoff (aka Black Widow) for Disney’s Marvel pic of the same name, and will next be seen in Wes Anderson’s Asteroid City.
Other upcoming projects include the Apple tentpole Project Artemis with her Avengers franchise co-star Chris Evans, Sebastián Lelio’s drama Bride, and a Tower of Tower film in early development, which she will produce for Disney.Thomas earned her Oscar nom for her leading role in The English Patient in 1997.
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