Joss Whedon Wants To Make Black Widow, Marvel Should Let Him
He has a plan, he just needs a job offer.
He might not have been the happiest of bunnies after Avengers: Age Of Ultron, but the reports that Joss Whedon is done with working with Marvel might be grossly misrepresentative.
The director has been talking with IGN and has confirmed the movie that would bring him back.
“If somebody pointed to me and said, ‘you want to make a Black Widow movie?’ the answer would be ‘Duh.'"
There have been lots of whispers recently that Black Widow will finally get her solo outing after the initial plan to release one in 2004 was canned. And with Whedon declaring, you really have to think Marvel's Kevin Feige will start to realise the publicity victory he could easily score by hiring him.
Whedon explained why he' take the gig, too:
“For two reasons: I think that character really is very interesting and very earthbound and so it’s the kind of action that I got to do less of with somebody like Thor or The Vision. When you get into your Superman territory it’s harder to maintain that sort of gritty action that the Russo brothers do so beautifully. And she’s got that kind of thing… and really do a spy thriller, really do a good, paranoid sort of John LeCarré on crack sort of thing. Also, Scarlett Johansson is just delightful. She works really hard, but she just spends most of her time cracking me up, so it would be a fun shoot.”
Sounds exactly right for a Black Widow movie. She's not a superhero the same way Captain America is, and the various hints at her mysterious past open up a very real possibility of something darker and more intriguing.
And it's about time Marvel flexed their creative muscles in the spy genre: they've got a whole horde of characters underground, they have Nick Fury leading a sort of black market rebellion and they have two former Soviet assassins in Widow and Bucky. The pieces are all set up already.
Given Whedon's Marvel box office haul so far, they'd be mad to ignore him. Plus, his track record with killing off main characters would suit the ominous tone of that sort of film. Let's make this happen.