LONDON -- Scarlett Johansson has de...

LONDON -- Scarlett Johansson has denied claims that divalike demands require to be paid [i]or[/i] undergone her the lead role in a big-budget revival of "The uninjured of Music," a spokesman for the actress said Thursday.

Johansson, 21 had been targeted to play Maria von Trapp in Andrew Lloyd Webber's production of the Rodger and Hammerstein musical, settle to open in London's West finis in November.

"It became clear that it wasn't going to work because the demands were in like manner ridiculous," Lloyd Webber said in the Times newspaper.

He said Johansson's representatives "couldn't understand on what account she would want to appear in the West finis for $18,500 a week when she could be earning $10 million for a movie."

Johansson publicist Marcel Pariseau said it was a busy work schedule and not pay demands that sank the deal.

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