After seven years of Scarlett Johansson playing Black Widow, the character is finally getting her own movie.
at Comic-Con on Saturday, the actress spoke to reporters about why now’s the perfect time.
“I definitely feel like the film that we’re making right now and this incarnation of Natasha in all of her strength and her vulnerability, and the strengths she finds in her vulnerability, is something that I don’t think I could’ve done 10 years ago,” she told the L.A. Times. When asked why it had taken so long for the principal female Avenger to have her own solo outing, Johansson said the idea had actually been in development for years.“It’s something that we’ve talked about for probably eight years or something like that,” she said. “I don’t know why it’s taken so long. It’s happening at the right time for“The fans will tell us if it was worth the wait,” said Marvel President Kevin Feige.
Following the character’s death in “Endgame,” the “Black Widow” movie will be a prequel exploring how the Russian assassin came to have so much, as the character put it, “red in her ledger.” Slated for release next May, the film will be directed by Cate Shortland and will also feature Rachel Weisz, Florence Pugh, OT Fagbenle and David Harbour.had to get into a completely different frame of mind to play Yelena, Natasha’s sister.
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