{"id":777691,"date":"2026-05-06T16:57:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T16:57:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/777691\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T16:57:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T16:57:16","slug":"scarlett-johansson-to-star-in-ari-asters-eddington-follow-up-scapegoat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/777691\/","title":{"rendered":"Scarlett Johansson To Star In Ari Aster’s ‘Eddington’ Follow-Up ‘Scapegoat’"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tEXCLUSIVE: <\/strong>After taking his time in figuring out what his next original feature would be, Ari Aster<\/a> looks to have not only zeroed in on that project but found another A-lister to star in it. Sources tell Deadline that Aster is directing the pic Scapegoat<\/a> from a script he penned that has Scarlett Johansson<\/a> set to star. Insiders add that Aster will reunite with A24, who has released his past four films, as the distributor.<\/p>\n

\n\tAster, whose satire Eddington premiered at Cannes last year<\/a>, and his partner Lars Knudsen will produce through their Square Peg banner. As is the case with all Aster films, plot details are being kept under wraps.<\/p>\n

\n\tSince the release of his hit horror pic Hereditary, Aster\u2019s scripts always have drawn the town\u2019s attention given how unique and original they tend to be.<\/p>\n

\n\tAfter spending the end of last year writing, Scapegoat became his original script and his top choice to star in the film was Johansson. This would be no easy task as the Oscar nominee already had lined up a very busy shooting schedule in 2026 that included starring in the next Exorcist film<\/a> at Universal as well as shooting the next Batman sequel<\/a> opposite Robert Pattinson later this summer. Sources say after reading the script, Johansson was all in on starring in the film and producers were on board for a shoot later this year to accommodate her busy schedule.<\/p>\n

\n\tJohansson is coming off an equally busy 2025 that included helping relaunched the\u00a0Jurassic World\u00a0franchise with\u00a0Jurassic World: Rebirth.\u00a0That film, which hit theaters in July, went on to gross $868M worldwide and has a sequel in the works.<\/p>\n

\n\tRELATED: The 60 Movies That Have Made More Than $1 Billion At The Global Box Office<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\tJohansson recently\u00a0made her directorial debut<\/a>\u00a0with the Sony Pictures Classics drama\u00a0Eleanor the Great, which\u00a0world premiered at the Cannes Film Festival.<\/a>\u00a0Next up she can be seen in the James Gray pic\u00a0Paper Tiger\u00a0opposite Miles Teller and Adam Driver.\u00a0That film also will make its premiere at this year\u2019s Cannes Film Festival.<\/p>\n

\n\tAster is repped by WME and Johnson Shapiro Slewett and Kole, and Johansson is repped by CAA and Yorn Levine LLC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: After taking his time in figuring out what his next original feature would be, Ari Aster looks…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":777692,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[29983,185,171,318526,3390,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-777691","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-ari-aster","9":"tag-celebrities","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-scapegoat","12":"tag-scarlett-johansson","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116528693025205601","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=777691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777691\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/777692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}