Scarlett Johansson Too Hot To Wait For; Superhero Movie ‘Lucy’ Will Be Released Sooner Than Planned; Lucy Goes Up Against Hercules; Watch The Trailer [VIDEO]

Scarlett Johansson is too hot to wait for. Universal moved up the action pic "Lucy" starring Scarlett Johansson two weeks earlier to July 25.Scarlett Johansson is hot this summer. Scarlett Johansson is hot every summer, and doesn't show much of a chance of cooling in the other seasons, but this summer Johansson will be starring in almost a blockbuster a week.

The Scarlett Johansson starrer "Lucy" will be released on the big screen sooner than later to make room for the rest of the summer screeners .Scarlett Johansson's "Lucy" will go up against "Hercules," starring Dwayne Johnson and the new comedy "Sex Tape" starring Cameron Diaz and Jason Segel.


According to IMDb, the new Scarlett Johansson vehicle is about "A woman, accidentally caught in a dark deal, turns the tables on her captors and transforms into a merciless warrior evolved beyond human logic." The film is set in a futuristic world  run by the mob, street gangs, drug addicts and corrupt cops.


Universal Pictures announced that they moved the release date for their upcoming action film "Lucy," which stars Scarlett Johansson and Morgan Freeman, from August 8th to July 25th 2014. Variety speculates that Universal wanted to clear it from the release date of Marvel's "Guardians of the Galaxy" release, which is set to hit screens on August 1st. "Lucy" was written and directed by Luc Besson. Luc Besson directed the films "La Femme Nikita," "Léon: The Professional," and "The Fifth Element." He also co-wrote the screenplay to "Transporter" and "Taken."


Scarlett Johansson recently reprised her role as "The Black Widow," who goes by the nom de plume Natasha Romanoff during the day, in Marvel's  "Captain America: The Winter Soldier." The new Captain America was a huge blockbuster hit. It solidified Scarlett's position as the top female action star. Johansson is also hot off the indie art house sci-fi film Under the Skin, which came out in April.


The reasons for the "Lucy" schedule change move were not immediately clear, according to the Hollywood Reporter, but if the movie was released on August 8t, the movie would have been up against Michael Bay's "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" and "Guardians." The new release date (July 25) is also crowded. Paramount will release Brett Ratner's "Hercules," which stars Dwayne Johnson and Columbia will release "Sex Tape," a comedy starring Cameron Diaz and Jason Segel.


"Lucy" tells the story of a woman, Scarlett Johansson, who is kidnapped and forced to become a drug mule. She is smuggling a dangerous substance that has been surgically deposited into her stomach. When the substance leaks into Lucy's system and gives her heightened mental and physical abilities. Lucy continues to get more powerful until she is able to use "100% of the human brain." At least, that's the way Morgan Freeman tells it in the first Lucy trailer. 

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