While there’s a vocal group that doesn’t care much for what Scarlett Johansson brings to the Marvel Cinematic Universe, there’s a lot that do enjoy it with what she brings to the table for people of all age ranges and genders. One of the frustrating aspects for fans is similar to The Hulk in that after the popularity in The Avengers, no standalone adventure has been slotted for the character. She did get a strong role in Captain America: The Winter Soldier and apparently she has a solid role in Age of Ultron as well, and is set to be involved with Civil War, but with Marvel still a few years away from a female lead superhero film, many had hoped Black Widow would have been the one to establish it – especially after her box office turn with Lucy.
With her out doing press for Age of Ultron, the question naturally comes up and she has a lot to say on it,
“I think that there’s room for a standalone movie. The character has a really rich origin story and I’ve been really fortunate to kind of place all these layers on top of one another and kind of build up this character to this point where I think I can now start to peel them away and reveal different sides of her and really focus on—I think I’ve been able to grow with the character, the character’s been able to grow with me.
Her dilemma that she faces it’s a deeply personal one, she has this great, huge, epic kind of calling and now is suddenly going, ‘Wait a minute. I have this epic calling, but I wanna make a choice for myself. I feel like I’ve put in the hours, I should be able to make active choices’ and she inevitably chooses the heroic path and kind of puts her own personal desires and needs aside. Those are things that kind of butt up against each other and interesting things happen when you have a character that’s pulled in many different directions and in my mind there’s room for plenty more Black Widow and certainly more—I think I could see her in a standalone film.”
Naturally, she’s not the only one interested…
“I’ve spoken to Kevin about it. I mean, of course, of course we’ve had that conversation before, and I think Kevin would also like to see a standalone film. I think I can speak for him and say that. That’s all, really. Right now I think this character is used well in this part of the universe, but I think that Kevin—I mean, we’ve talked about it and we both share similar vision for what could be a standalone series.”
Though we’ve heard that before with other characters as well. In the end, it’s just a matter of timing and the schedule in the grand plan. What might work better is some sort of Netflix series? Anyway, she also talks a bit about how the character has fit into things in regards to her contract.
“My contract has changed. Marvel and myself didn’t really know how the fans were gonna react to Black Widow the first time and how she was gonna be—they couldn’t anticipate how they would want to use her or if they would want to use her. I mean we invested in that character, but the audience had a great reaction to the character, which has been so awesome. For instance, I wasn’t contracted into doing Cap movies, but that storyline worked out so well I kind of branched off and I found myself in that standalone movie. My contract is kind of mutating, I guess [laughs] or morphed to fit the demand of the character.”
In terms of her contract, always an area that fans like to know about, it certainly seems like she’s one of the easier ones to work with and isn’t looking to head off to anything else.
“It’s been a very good relationship back and forth and I think Marvel—the one thing about working with them is they don’t want anybody to work on the movie that doesn’t want to be there, obviously. So whatever you’re contracted to should not feel like golden handcuffs, and they don’t want that either… I will certainly be around and that’s because it’s been such a great response. I mean, I’m always happy to put the cat suit back on, for sure.”
With her having signed on for the Ghost in the Shell project, if that gets off that ground, that could certainly keep her busy, but there’s plenty of potential all around for the character.
[Source: Collider]
