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Scarlett Johansson Empire Magazine May 2020
THE MARVEL CINEMATIC Universe is like a shark: always moving forward. As Phase Four begins, the next few films that Marvel has planned — the cosmic shenanigans of The Eternals, the mysticism of Shang-Chi And The Legend Of The Ten Rings, the reportedly horror-skewed Doctor Strange In The Multiverse Of Madness and Thor's, er, full-body Jane Foster makeover in Love And Thunder — all seem designed to push the envelope and drive the already-sprawling universe in new directions But sometimes, to go forwards, you have to go backwards. Black Widow, kicking off this new era, is reversing. Set between the Wars Civil and Infinity, Natasha Romanoff's much-anticipated solo outing is an outlier: Marvel is turning back the clock after a major character's death. This is not business as usual. This film shouldn't exist. For that reason, "backwards" might be the perfect choice of direction for the first film in Phase Four. Here, we're going to get into the mind of a character who has always kept herself carefully hidden. To finally learn about the dark forces that shaped Natasha into the hero she became. And it does get dark. Had this film been with us sooner, it most likely would not have gone there. "I think we could have done some other version of this movie [years ago]," Johansson tells Empire in late February this year, near the tail-end of post-production on the film. "It would have been something much more genre-oriented." Indeed, efforts to make a Black Widow film pre-date the MCU — X-Men screenwriter David Hayter was in talks to make one in 2004 before the deeply disappointing double-whammy of Elektra and Catwoman temporarily ended the opportunities for super-women on the big screen. It has taken 16 years, and ten since Johansson's first appearance in the role in Iron Man 2, for this to come together. Now, Marvel is rolling the dice on a risky proposition, hoping that the time has not passed just because the character has. The delay, though, is something for which Johansson is grateful. An earlier take would have been "something much more circus-y, you know?" she says.
Given the long campaign by fans for a solo outing, and Natasha's apparently definitive conclusion in Avengers: Endgame, Johansson wanted to be sure that there was a good reason to return to the catsuit, coming back not for a cash-in but an elegy. For the one person who still hasn't seen Endgame, that was when the ex-assassin-turned-Avenger fought to the death with her best buddy to save his life, and half the universe with him, securing the Soul Stone by flinging herself into the void. When she landed she seemed to have a half-smile on her face. Who has so much guilt that they actively fight to give up their own life for someone else's? A Black Widow film needed to answer questions, but it also had to add something to Natasha's story. For Johansson it had to have a sense that she was continuing to deepen the person she had played seven times already. If Scarlett Johansson Empire Magazine May 2020
a strong enough idea for a solo film had not presented itself, she would have been at peace leaving Natasha at the bottom of that Vormir cliff. Then, though, director Cate Shortland entered the picture.An Australian who broke through with the thoughtful, low-key drama Somersault in 2004, Shortland has blazed her own independent trail ever since, via the complex World War II family tale of Lore and the sexually charged thriller The Berlin
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