Scarlett to seduce (and eat) earthlings

By Robbie Graham Silver Screen Saucers

Scarlett Johansson is to star in a new alien-themed movie due for release in 2012. The movie - entitled Under the Skin - is to begin production this October in Inverclyde, Scotland, where casting sessions for extras are currently underway.

Johansson is to play the role of "an alien on earth, disguised as a beautiful woman who scours remote highways and desolate scenery looking to use her greatest weapon -- her sexuality -- to snare human prey." So says the official production blurb.

The Internet Movie Database, meanwhile, is more to the point in its description of the movie:

"Aliens descend upon Earth with a specific mission in mind: To abduct hitchhikers and take them back to their home world, where human meat is considered a delicacy."

It may sound pretty naff (and also remarkably like the 1995 'alien-as-seductress' movie Species), but Under the Skin is to be directed by Jonathan Glazer, whose excellent signature movie, Sexy Beast, is something of a modern cult classic. Glazer's involvement in Under the Skin, then, may well elevate it to 'must-see' status. Here's hoping it's better than Species, at the very least.