Joseph Gordon-Levitt to Direct ScarJo Film
He can act, he can sing, and to top it all off he's cute as all hell, but as it turns out, Joseph Gordon-Levitt has even more to add to his list of swoon-worthy accomplishments.
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"I'm gonna direct a movie I wrote!," announced JGL today on his website, hitRECordJoe. "It may be the biggest announcement of my life and I'm super excited about it. :oD"
Deadline.com was first to break the news, detailing that JGL had just been greenlighted to direct and act in a feature film starring Scarlett Johansson. Levitt himself penned the script and will playing the ladies man lead character who is on a journey to reform his lothario ways.
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"This is the first time I finished a feature film I thought was good enough to make into a movie," he told Deadline. "I've written others, including one mammothy huge sprawling thing that encompasses my entire point of view of everything since I was 20 years old."
Joseph credits the colossal career step towards his directorial influences of late for giving him the knowledge and self assurance to move forward with his passion.
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"I spent a year working with Chris Nolan, Rian Johnson, Steven Spielberg, and I did my best to pay attention. I've also been making short films for a long time now, I've directed a ton of them, and that is a huge part of why I feel comfortable and confident in this."
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