Scar-Jo Charts Capote's "Summer Crossing"

Variety reports that  Scarlett Johansson will make her directorial debut on the film adaptation of author Truman Capote's novel "Summer Crossing".

The story follows a 17-year-old Debutant who decides to pursue romance with a Jewish valet parking attendant instead of traveling through Paris during a 1945 summer heat wave in New York.

Capote never published the book, opting instead to throw out the manuscript. A janitor in his building salvaged it and the work resurfaced at auction in 2004.

Tristine Skyler wrote the adapted screenplay.

Oleg Boyko, Sergei Bespalov and Barry Spikings will produce.

Production begins in the first half of next year.