Director Jonathan Glazer (Sexy Beast) along with Walter Campbell has written a script based on the Michael Faber sci-fi novel, Under the Skin. Glazer will direct the film, which will star Scarlett Johansson (Iron Man 2, The Avengers) as a woman who is from another world.

Check out the description of Johansson’s character in the film below.

“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.”

via THR

Under the Skin is slated to hit theaters in 2012.