Scarlett Johansson has signed up to direct her first feature, a film adaptation of the Truman Capote’s nearly-lost novel “Summer Crossing.” Aldamisa will produce and shop the pic at Cannes. Aldamisa is also shopping Jon Favreau’s “Chef” in which Johansson just signed up to co-star.
Adaptation is based on Capote’s novel by the same name, which follows a 17-year-old Debutant who decides to pursue romance with a Jewish valet parking attendant instead of traveling through Paris during a 1945 summer heat wave in New York. Capote never published “Summer Crossing.” In fact, he trashed the manuscript altogether, and it was only salvaged after a janitor in his building fished discovered it. The pages resurfaced in a 2004 auction and was later published. Source: variety.com
Marilyn Monroe & Truman Capote dance at El Morocco in New York (1955)
Scarlett Johansson: Buxom beauty Scarlett Johansson as Marilyn Monroe seems like an obvious choice. With her blond 'do, red lips and va-va-voom curves on display, the actress channeled the Hollywood icon in a series of ad campaigns for Dolce and Gabbana in 2010. Source: nydailynews.com
"There was something exceptional about Marilyn Monroe," muses Truman Capote. "Sometimes she could be ethereal and sometimes like a waitress in a coffee shop." The pair met in 1949 and quickly became close friends. Both devotees of the capricious moment, Capote recalls how they once danced nude in Cecil Beaton's New York hotel suite while the great photographer snapped away. Truman says that the photographic proof is somewhere in one of his five homes.
When Monroe died of a drug overdose in 1962, Capote was in Spain writing In Cold Blood. "I was walking in a little Spanish town. I saw these headlines saying: 'Marilyn Monroe, Morte,' " he remembers. "I was shocked, even though you knew she was the kind of person this might happen to." Source: www.people.com
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