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Black Widow Kicks Butt in New Avengers Featurette, but Will She Appear in Iron Man 3?

by Susana Polo | 1:20 pm, April 25th, 2012


The media onslaught for The Avengers has reached its fever pitch this month, and with the movie’s wide release nearly a week away, I’ve been avoiding the production’s television spots and extended featurettes like the plauge. But how could I resist one all about the only founding female member of the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s Avengers, Black Widow.

The character was introduced to the movie universe with a secondary role in Iron Man 2, and since that movie’s sequel is gearing up, one wonders if Widow will continue her attachment to the series. According to Scarlett Johansson herself…

Well, no, according to ScreenRant. But Johansson is ready for more screen time for the Widow regardless.

I think that you build this kind of character in the hope that the fans are like, “we want more.” I personally think there’s an awesome Black Widow movie in there. A kind of Bourne film that would take the whole comic-book genre in a completely different direction. It’d be awesome.

I’ve spoken to Marvel about it and Kevin Feige, and there’s so much story to draw from, I think it’d be totally awesome.

She acknowledges that getting back into the rigorous routine of exercise and eating restrictions it took to portray a superhero would be daunting… but worth it. Unfortunately, all I’m hearing is that there are exactly zero plans at this moment to make a solo Black Widow movie, or even have her appear in the three sequels that Marvel has already planned for the rest of the Avengers. While the cynic in me is not surprised, it’s still a little disappointing. If Marvel Entertainment has shown one thing in the process of creating the Cinematic Universe, it’s a willingness to write, cast, and push movies into preproduction before their preceding movies have even had a second trailer, much less a box office return. If the company was as excited to make movies about the only female superhero currently in their movie universe as it was to make movies about the men, we would already know what Black Widow’s next appearance would be.

(via Blastr.)

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  • Trish Heinrich

    With the success of The Hunger Games and the Kill Bill movies showing that with a quality story, director and all the rest a woman can carry an action film, you think they’d be dying, or at the very least strongly considering a Black Widow movie.  I hope they do. I’d like to see a good super hero flick with a woman doing the majority of the butt kicking.

  • Katie Marinelli

    While I’d love to see a Black Widow movie I don;t think the character doesn’t have a following to carry a movie by herself. I think there would be a better chance to have a ‘SHIELD’ movie with Hawkeye as her partner. Though that fake movie poster I’ve seen around for Black Widow is gorgeous.
    (I’d die though if there was a ‘preAvengers’ movie with Black Widow and the Winter Soldier, which would be able to tie in with a future Captain America movie since WS is Bucky)

  • Anonymous

    Agreed, I would love to see duo movies that are based on teamups.

    Let’s not forget, they haven’t really avoided female superhero movies. It’s just they aren’t that good.  (Electra, Catwoman, Aeon Flux, Tomb Raider, Underworld, Resident Evil)

    If there’s any tier 1 female character that deserves a solo movie and to be done with justice, it’s Wonder Woman.

  • http://twitter.com/briecs Brianna Sheldon

    How about anyone else? Honestly, if someone else had been cast, maybe I’d be in support, but to be frank, I don’t think ScarJo can pull off a full film in the lead as Black Widow. The character might be able to survive, but not with her in the lead. 

    I’m still praying for Batgirl or Batwoman or even Huntress to get a film someday. 

  • http://twitter.com/scarecroe scarecroe

    Would love to see her in a solo hero flick. Which reminds me, whatever happened to that Amazon project she was attached to?

  • Natalya Galarza

    I really wanted the Wasp or Antman/Giant man/Yellowjacket in there :’( 

    Black Widow was not the only female.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_R7GVNIKWG3S2UTHEQOMSZXT4M4 Anna B

    I’m so excited! I’m rallying for my family and I to be in some type of Avengers costume when we go to see the movie. I’ve already bought a Capt. America’s shield for my son and I’m planning to go as Thor.  My son and I are trying to convince the hubs to be someone. I’d love to be Black Widow, but on principle, I wanted to pick a dude because I didn’t want my kid to get the idea that just because I’m a lady, I’d have to be the lady character.

  • Life Lessons

    Come on Marvel!!! 

  • Carmen Sandiego

     I still bum hard that they scrapped the Joss Whedon Wonder Woman movie.   I wonder if they would let him take another crack or if that would be a no-no since it’s DC not Marvel.  I’m not sure what kind of contract he has with Marvel but it might prevent him from doing DC stuff.

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