Mary, Queen Of Scots For Phillip Noyce

Scarlett Johansson has been attached to the title role in a movie called Mary, Queen Of Scots for a while – but today, she finally found a director.

Phillip Noyce has signed on to call the shots on the Jimmy McGovern-scripted drama, which will focus on the rivalry between the young Roman Catholic who became Scotland’s Queen, before she was even a year old, in 1542.

After becoming a rival to the English throne of Elizabeth I, Mary was imprisoned for decades at the Queen’s behest on charges of plotting to murder the Protestant monarch, and was finally beheaded in 1587.

It’s a heck of a role for any actress – Samantha Morton played the role alongside Cate Blanchett in the recent Elizabeth: The Golden Age – but this one promises to hew much closer to Mary’s side of the story. Read the rest of this entry