Marvel is finally pushing ahead with Black Widow, a standalone movie starring Scarlett Johnansson with Jac Schaeffer (Timer, Nasty Women) penning the script. Scarlett Johansson has already appeared as Black Widow six times, the next one being Marvel’s upcoming “Infinity War”. Rumors have been swirling for months now about a standalone Widow film, and although it hasn’t officially been green-lit yet, Marvel just hired Jac Schaeffer to write it.
The last film had Black Widow switching allegiances back and forth while playing a border-line double agent in Captain America: Civil War. That role fits perfectly for Black Widow, who has a long history of working for and defecting from many different clandestine organizations, from S.H.I.E.L.D. to the Russians, Americans, CIA, you name it.
Born in 1928, Natalia "Natasha" Romanova was orphaned as a child. Ivan Petrovitch Bezukhov, a Soviet soldier, found Natasha in the burned out husk of a bombed building and saved her. By the late 1930s she had attracted the attention of Soviet intelligence, which began her training. In 1941, she was almost brainwashed into serving the ninja clan the Hand, but was saved by Ivan, Wolverine and Captain America. Following World War II, Natasha was recruited to become part of the Black Widow program, which is a bit like Weapon X, only with more training and less adamantium. In the program, she met Bucky, The Winter Soldier, and has switched sides many times since, joining the Avengers, partnering with Daredevil, Spiderman, and many others.
With a writer in place, the Black Widow film can finally begin serious movement forward, and with a lot of the Avengers actor’s contracts coming to a close, it will be interesting to see where (and for how long) Johansson will take the character.
