Scarlett Johansson is set to star in 'Tangerine'.

Scarlett Johansson

Scarlett Johansson

The 31-year-old actress will take on the leading role in the big-screen adaptation of Christine Mangan's debut novel, a psychological thriller set in 1950s Morocco.

Smokehouse Pictures' George Clooney and Grant Heslov will produce the movie alongside Imperative Entertainment partners Dan Friedkin and Bradley Thomas.

Friedkin said: "Christine has created an evocative and electrifying novel. We're thrilled to not only be working with George, Grant, and the talented team at Smokehouse Pictures, but also one of the most skilled actors on the planet in Scarlett. This is an all-star team and we can't wait to bring this stunning tale to life."

Meanwhile, it was recently revealed that Scarlett is in advanced talks to take on the lead role in the biopic 'The Beautiful and The Damned', which tells the tale of Jazz Age icon Zelda Fitzgerald and her relationship with author husband F. Scott Fitzgerald.

The title of the project is a play on the F. Scott classic 'The Beautiful and Damned', which was a thinly veiled chronicle of his own marriage. Zelda - who was later diagnosed with schizophrenia and descended into madness - and her husband found it hard to be creative equals, which caused a rift in their relationship.

Millennium Films - who are financing the project - have secured the co-operation of the Fitzgerald estate for the film and aim to incorporate newly uncovered transcripts from a sanatorium Zelda was confined in, which reportedly indicate that her husband branded her ideas as his own.

Mark Gill, president of Millennium, said of Zelda's legacy: "It was the height of the Jazz Age, so you have all of that glamour and sophistication and living large. But you also have the massive drama of fly high, crash hard.

"She was massively ahead of her time, and she took a beating for it. He stole her ideas and put them in his books. The marriage was a co-dependency from hell with a Jazz Age soundtrack."

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