Scarlett Johansson to Star in Television Adaptation of Edith Wharton's THE CUSTOM OF THE COUNTRY

Scarlett Johansson will soon be headed to the small screen.

According to Deadline, Sony Pictures TV have enlisted the actress to star in and executive produce an adaptation of Edith Wharton's novel THE CUSTOM OF THE COUNTRY. The studio is eyeing a cable or premium cable network for the project, an eight-episode period piece.

CUSTOM OF THE COUNTRY is "a scathing story of ambition featuring one of the most ruthless heroines in literature, Undine Spragg, who will be played by Johansson in her first major TV role. Undine is as unscrupulous as she is magnetically beautiful. Her rise to the top of New York's high society from her nouveau riche roots provides a provocative and thoroughly modern commentary on the upwardly mobile and the aspirations that eventually cause their ruin."

Johansson can currently be seen on the big screen in Captain America: The Winter Soldier, with Chef, Lucy, Avengers: Age of Ultron and Black Widow in the wings. She just voiced the part of 'Samantha' in the Oscar-nominated movie Her and has also recently appeared in Under the Skin, Don Jon, Hitchcock, The Avengers and more. Her Broadway credits include A View From the Bridge in 2010 and last year's Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.