{"id":27930,"date":"2013-04-30T16:51:05","date_gmt":"2013-04-30T20:51:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=27930"},"modified":"2013-04-30T16:51:05","modified_gmt":"2013-04-30T20:51:05","slug":"scarlett-johansson-signing-onto-luc-bessons-lucy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2013\/04\/30\/scarlett-johansson-signing-onto-luc-bessons-lucy\/","title":{"rendered":"Scarlett Johansson Signing Onto Luc Besson&#8217;s LUCY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/ScarlettJohansson.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-27931\" alt=\"ScarlettJohansson\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/ScarlettJohansson.jpg\" width=\"550\" height=\"309\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scarlett Johansson is in final talks to appear in French action director Luc Besson&#8217;s upcoming <strong>Lucy<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>According to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/heat-vision\/scarlett-johansson-star-luc-bessons-446576\" target=\"_blank\">Hollywood Reporter<\/a>, Johansson will play the title role of &#8211;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[A] woman forced to become a drug mule. But the drug instead goes into her system, transforming her into an ass-kicking machine. She can absorb knowledge instantaneously, is able to move objects with her mind and can&#8217;t feel pain and other discomforts.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m reasonably sure that this is not based on a true story.<\/p>\n<p>Still, Besson has a long history of featuring strong women in his films and Johansson&#8217;s work as Black Widow in Iron Man 2 and The Avengers certainly shows that she should be up to the challenge of whatever Besson tries to throw at her.<\/p>\n<p>Johansson will be reporting for work with Besson after she wraps the currently-shooting <strong>Captain America: The Winter Soldier<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">The actress will play the latest ass-kicking woman character from the French director.<\/div>\n<p> <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2013\/04\/30\/scarlett-johansson-signing-onto-luc-bessons-lucy\/\" title=\"Scarlett Johansson Signing Onto Luc Besson&#8217;s LUCY\">[click for more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[2722,6373,266],"series":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-27930","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"tag-luc-besson","8":"tag-lucy","9":"tag-scarlett-johansson"},"aioseo_notices":[],"nelio_content":{"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"efiAlt":"","efiUrl":"","followers":[],"highlights":[],"isAutoShareEnabled":false,"networkImageIds":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[],"series":[],"suggestedReferences":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27930\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27930"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=27930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}