The 30-year-old "Avengers: Age of Ultron" star, who was reportedly planning her feature directorial debut in 2013, will go behind the camera for the concert, while the movie is still not on cards.
Johansson was enlisted by a credit card company to direct Ellie Goulding's concert, as part of its Unstaged series, reported Entertainment Weekly.
The "Lucy" star joins a lengthy list of celebrity directors for Unstaged, including Spike Lee, Bennett Miller, Werner Herzog, Todd Haynes, David Lynch, Johnathan Demme, Steve Buscemi, and Fred Armisen.