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Marvel confirms "Black Widow" movie in development
TheOriginalGMan
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http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1722209/marvel-black-widow-movie.jhtml
During an interview for the cover story about "Captain America: The Winter Soldier," Feige explains how "Avengers: The Age of Ultron" fleshes out the spy's story and then reveals that there has been some work done on a Black Widow movie, potentially starring Scarlett Johansson.
"We learn more about her past and learn more about where she came from and how she became in that film," he said. "The notion of exploring that even further in her own film would be great, and we have some development work with that."
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I hope they replace her. She's done a fine job so far but I think the role could be better cast.
If the potential movie is just now starting to be developed, there's a good chance that it wouldn't even be released until after this round of Avengers movies are over with and it'd be time to revitalize the character with a new actress.
Marvel Studios could use a movie that headlined anything but a white dude. I'll give them a pass if they do a Black Widow, Black Panther, Cpt Marvel, etc and DC still hasn't had a WW movie out. Until then, it's nobody's game.
(Then again there was Catwoman: female and ethnic. DC win. But oh did we lose. What a bad movie. :))
I'm sure Hawkeye could be better cast, but I think Renner is doing the role well.
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For my money, this is much less interesting than Ant-Man or even GotG. Maybe they could bring back Daredevil with this though? Either way, I would definitely watch it on Blu-Ray or Netflix though. Ticket prices being what they are these days, I'm selective about what I'm willing to pay $10 to see in a theater when I can wait 3 months and watch it at home for much less while also owning it.
Now if it were She-Hulk...?
She-Hulk could reach into the same pitfall as solo Hulk movies.
If the Black Widow movie was more like Salt & Covert Affairs, I think it could stand to be up there with Winter Soldier. How many cameos & character spring boards could you get out of the movie. Next to a Nick Fury movie, Black Widow has the potential to touch upon a large portion of the Marvel Studios Universe.
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"we have some development work with that."
Yea, I won't hold my breath on that. To me that means "We think this would be cool.... but it could be 5 years or more away. Or never."
Was just kidding about the SheHulk movie.
I need a sarcasm font.
Also, recasting the role would be a death sentence.
It has been known for some time that Marvel Studios has been considering giving Scarlett Johansson's Black Widow a solo film. During a press conference today to promote their latest release, Captain America: The Winter Soldier, studio President Kevin Feige revealed that developmental work is still underway on just such a project.
"I think the idea would be great," he says. "We've got various outlines and ideas of where to take that. As Scarlett already said, there's a big element that explores her back story in an upcoming Marvel feature. The question really is, 'When will we take her out of the ensemble and have her do her own thing?' As you saw in ['Captain America: The Winter Soldier'], as you'll see in 'Avengers: Age of Ultron,' she's really the key to so much of the plot development."
The record of female lead comic movies is not great. Scarlett Johansson, despite her success in supporting roles and ensemble casts, isn't a guaranteed audience draw. Black Widow is a superhero... that isn't super... or always a hero.
There is a lot of iffy in there.
Marvel has been really smart about building their movie universe. Do they want to hang their first female hero solo film hopes on this project?
Frankly, I'd rather see a Siff and the Warriors Three film. I was very disappointed at how underused they were in the Thor sequel, but I think if you give them a mission in one of the other realms, away from Thor, there is a real possibility of a fun film.
A Carl Danvers movie will take at least another movie to set up the character beforehand, so I don't see that one happening anytime soon. Same with She-Hulk.
Black Widow is their *best* bet right now, but I don't know if she is a great bet.
That said, if they could convince Joss Whedon to helm it (given his experience with Buffy the Vampire Slayer), it has some real potential.
;)
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Maybe a Bourne meets Bond style spy film where we see some flashbacks to Black Widow's origins as a KGB assassin and spy. Perhaps a story of how the KGB was experimenting with a super soldier program similar to Captain America (which led to Omega Red in the comics), and how Black Widow sabotaged it leading to her defection to the US, being recruited by Nick Fury, and something from her past comes back to haunt her making Natasha choose between her loyalties to S.H.I.E.L.D. and protecting secrets from her past. Bring in villains like Whiplash, Crimson Dynamo, Red Guardian, etc and make it a spy/mystery/actioner.
If they make it a cross between The Itsy-Bitsy Spider and Deadly Origin Black Widow comic stories and they might have a hit worthy of the expanded MU. Otherwise, I'll probably wait until DVD/streaming...
And Angelina upstage someone else?! Remember a couple years ago at an awards show & Angelina was presenting? She wore a black dress with a slit? Right before the awards show aired a clip, her leg appeared out of that slit. It was the talk of the show the next day. Does Angelina upstage others? Her freaking bare leg up to her high thigh upstaged an entire show.
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Luc Besson knows how to make a fun movie. Here's Scarlett & Luc's version of Limitless. It's called Lucy
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Elektra failed because of lack of exposure? Not because the only post-2000 comic book movie worse than elektra was catwoman?
Also, I will never understand why anyone wants to see Scarlett Johansson in anything other than a bikini. She is completely mediocre as an actress and has gotten away with reading every line of dialogue exactly the same because of her sultry voice and sex appeal. When it comes to Black Widow I have no choice but to accept her because I want to enjoy the movies set in this universe, but I'd never watch a solo movie, or any other movie in which she is THE star.
If they did not want to move on a solo movie, putting Black Widow in a teamup movie with Hawkeye or even Nick Fury could really work.