{"id":627287,"date":"2026-05-06T17:59:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T17:59:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/627287\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T17:59:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T17:59:16","slug":"scarlett-johansson-to-star-in-ari-asters-next-film-scapegoat-for-a24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/627287\/","title":{"rendered":"Scarlett Johansson to Star in Ari Aster’s Next Film Scapegoat for A24"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ari Aster<\/a> just landed one of the biggest movie stars on the planet to lead his fifth feature. Scarlett Johansson<\/a> will star in \u201cScapegoat,\u201d which is set up at A24<\/a> and which Aster will write, direct, and produce, an individual with knowledge of the project told IndieWire.<\/p>\n

If you thought there would be any plot details today about a new Aster joint, think again. Everything is under wraps for now, but Deadline<\/a>, which first reported the news, reports that Johansson was Aster\u2019s first choice for his latest idea.<\/p>\n

Aster is producing with his partner Lars Knudsen for their Square Peg banner. <\/p>\n

Johansson has a busy shooting schedule that includes the next \u201cBatman\u201d movie opposite Robert Pattinson and an \u201cExorcist\u201d reboot for Universal. She\u2019s set to be seen in \u201cPaper Tiger\u201d from James Gray<\/a> at Cannes later this month, and she\u2019s coming off having directed her own debut feature film<\/a>, \u201cEleanor the Great.\u201d She also in 2025 starred in \u201cJurassic World: Dominion\u201d and appeared in Wes Anderson\u2019s \u201cThe Phoenician Scheme.\u201d She\u2019s as busy as they come. <\/p>\n

\"'Maddie's<\/a> \""Mortal<\/a> <\/p>\n

Aster\u2019s last feature \u201cEddington<\/a>,\u201d the neo-Western that was also a COVID-era parable, was pretty star-studded as well, featuring Joaquin Phoenix, Pedro Pascal, and Emma Stone. That film made $13.7 million for A24 last year at the box office. A24 has released all of Aster\u2019s movies dating back to his debut breakout \u201cHereditary\u201d in 2018.<\/p>\n

Johansson just recently lost the title of the highest-grossing movie star based on box office revenue to Zoe Salda\u00f1a after the release of the latest \u201cAvatar\u201d film, but Johansson at $15.4 billion is just another $70 million blockbuster short of catching up. Will an Aster film get her there? \u201cHereditary\u201d made $90.3 million and \u201cMidsommar\u201d did $48.5 million. He\u2019s moved away from the straight genre horror since then, and that\u2019s made him more polarizing at the box office, but having a movie star of Johansson\u2019s caliber involved never hurts.<\/p>\n

Deadline first reported the news.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ari Aster just landed one of the biggest movie stars on the planet to lead his fifth feature.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":627288,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[17979,17250,4,450,2695,451,3,4114,452,453],"class_list":["post-627287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-a24","tag-ari-aster","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-film","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-scarlett-johansson","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=627287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627287\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/627288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=627287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=627287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=627287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}