Woah! Holy massive spoilers, Batman!
So a new interview with Black Widow director Cate Shortland has revealed a pretty big spoiler for the upcoming Marvel movie,so if you don’t want it spoiled, then this is your warning, gang.
SPOILER WARNING:
Although we all speculated as much given her fate in Avengers: Engame, the director seems to confirm that, yes, this is Scarlett Johansson’s last outing for the Avenger, and a passing of the torch to newcomer to the franchise Florence Pugh’s Yelena.
“[Kevin Feige] realised that the audience would expect an origin story so, of course, we went in the opposite direction,” Shortland says.
“And we didn’t know how great Florence Pugh would be. We knew she would be great, but we didn’t know how great. Scarlett is so gracious, like, ‘Oh, I’m handing her the baton.’ So it’s going to propel another female storyline.”
The director goes on to say that the movie feels like a coping tool for those who still haven’t absorbed Black Widow’s death in Endgame: “In Endgame, the fans were upset that Natasha did not have a funeral. Whereas Scarlett, when I spoke to her about it, said Natasha wouldn’t have wanted a funeral.
“She’s too private, and anyway, people don’t really know who she is. So what we did in this film was allow the ending to be the grief the individuals felt, rather than a big public outpouring. I think that’s a fitting ending for her.”
As I said before, it’s not a big surprise but it seems like this is a lot of news to drop months before the movie is released… or are we over-reacting? Let me know your thoughts, folks.
In Marvel Studios’ action-packed spy thriller “Black Widow,” Natasha Romanoff aka Black Widow confronts the darker parts of her ledger when a dangerous conspiracy with ties to her past arises.
Pursued by a force that will stop at nothing to bring her down, Natasha must deal with her history as a spy and the broken relationships left in her wake long before she became an Avenger.
Scarlett Johansson reprises her role as Natasha/Black Widow, Florence Pugh stars as Yelena, David Harbour portrays Alexei/The Red Guardian, and Rachel Weisz is Melina.
Directed by Cate Shortland and produced by Kevin Feige, “Black Widow”—the first film in Phase Four of the Marvel Cinematic Universe—hits U.S. theaters on May 1st, 2020.
At some point we all have to choose between what the world wants you to be and who you are.
Black Widow is currently due on 28th October.
Source: Empire
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