Scarlett Johansson is set to star as a horny killer alien with magnificent breasts in director Jonathan Glazer’s adaptation of author Michel Faber’s novel Under the Skin. The news was announced by studio FilmNation at the American Film Market (AFM) being held in Santa Monica, CA this week.

FilmNation states:

Johansson plays an alien on earth, disguised as the perfect aesthetic form of a mesmerizing woman. She scours remote highways and desolate scenery looking to use her greatest weapon to snare human prey — her voracious sexuality.

She is deadly efficient, but over time becomes drawn to and changed by the complexity of life on earth. With this new found humanity and weakening alien resolve, she finds herself on a collision course with her own kind. Taking her point of view throughout, the film presents a unique look at our world through alien eyes.

Glazer, who cowrote the kinky 2004 Nicole Kidman psychological-thriller Birth, penned the script with some guy named Walter Campbell. The film goes into production in spring of 2011.

Johansson’s genre creds include Marvel Studios’ Iron Man 2, Frank Miller’s The Spirit, Brian De Palma’s The Black Dahlia, Eight Legged Freaks, and Michael Bay’s highly underrated The Island. She is also reprising her Iron Man 2 role of Natasha Romanov/Black Widow in geek-messiah Joss Whedon’s upcoming Avengers film, set to shoot in Feb. of 2011.