It sounds like a joke, but Variety is passing it off as true – Scarlett Johansson will be playing an Amazonian warrior in Amazon.
The film is being written by Dirk Blackman and Howard McCain, based on a basic idea from Scarlett herself, which she came up with while filming The Island. In Amazon she’ll be a “gliadtrix” in 200 BC who revenges herself on an army that destroyed her homeland. She will be offering them her bloody vengeance with free shipping.
Blackman and McCain have some hack and slash experience – they’ve written the Viking film Outlander for the Weinstein Co, which will start filming next year.
As always I wonder how Amazonians will be dealt with on film. In “real life” they only had one tit – they cut the left one off so it wouldn’t get in the way when pulling back their bows. Even with just the one boob, Scarlett is better built than most of the anorexic starlets today. I wonder if they’re hiring anyone to hold one of those beauties back…