Producers back Johansson's directorial debut

Johansson"Summer time Crossing," an adaptation of Truman Capote's lost novella, is headed for that bigscreen because the directorial debut of Scarlett Johansson.Project's being created by Craig Spikings, who won an Oscar for "The Deer Hunter," and executive created by Peter D. Graves with the Truman Capote Literary Trust and it is trustee Alan Schwartz.Film writer and NY playwright Tristine Skyler is adapting the Capote novella."Summer time Crossing" novella is occur NY when Gotham was emerging in the trauma of The Second World War and focuses on an 18-year-old girl breaking free from her wealthy, obstructing, family to uncover her very own identity and sexuality."Summer time Crossing" was compiled by Capote throughout the nineteen forties after which lost for fifty years prior to being retrieved and released.Johannson told Women's Put on Daily in September that they planned to direct the film. She'll be viewed next in "We Purchased a Zoo," "Underneath the Skin" and "The Avengers." Johannson's repped by CAA. Contact Dork McNary at dork.mcnary@variety.com