The director behind The Avengers and Avengers: Age of Ultron says that he would come back to the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) if someone offered him the Black Widow movie. After the release of Age of Ultron, Whedon left the MCU. According to Whedon, the film “broke” him.
He even went on to say that he left the set of Age of Ultron feeling like a “miserable failure.” With so much negative sentiment towards the MCU, it’s hard to believe Whedon would ever want to step back into the director’s seat for another Marvel movie.
Apparently, if that movie was Black Widow, Whedon would be so down for that.
“If somebody pointed to me and said, ‘You want to make a Black Widow movie?’ the answer would be ‘Duh,’” Whedon told IGN.
“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”.
If Black Widow got a standalone film, Whedon would be competing against the Iron Man 3 director, seeing as Shane Black said he’d want to direct the movie too. If the movie does happn, hopefully it’s nothing like that SNL Black Widow movie skit.
