Scarlett Johansson says she was interested in seeing a Black Widow standalone movie. She plays Black Widow – better known as Natasha Romanova – in the Marvel Cinematic Universe and there has been much discussion about the character receiving her own film.
“If you want to see a Black Widow spin-off movie, then I want to see it,” Johansson told reporters on the red carpet for the London premiere of Captain America: The Winter Soldier on Thursday.
“We’ll see. We will put the request into Marvel tomorrow.”
Whether Black Widow gets her own movie even after that request is still up for debate. In an interview with Badass Digest, Marvel Studios head Kevin Feige said nothing was set in stone because producing a Black Widow movie might not make the societal impact that everyone would want.
“Frankly if we do a Black Widow movie after Age of Ultron, when she’s been central in three or four movies I don’t think we’d get the quote unquote credit for it,” Feige said when asked if Black
Widow made sense as the studio’s “first standalone female hero.” “People would say, ‘She’s already a big giant superhero!’ But if we had a great idea, we’d do it,” said Feige.