For years she has been pitching a Black Widow standalone film and it looks she just might pull that off.
Multiple news outlets reported on Wednesday that screenwriter, Jac Schaeffer, has been hired to pen a script for the project. But there is still plenty to iron out as the movie is still in early development.
Schaeffer wrote the script for Nasty Woman, a Dirty Rotten Scoundrels remake starring Anne Hathaway and Rebel Wilson. She previously wrote and directed the romantic sci-fi film TiMER.
Johansson first appeared onscreen as Natasha Romanoff (a.k.a. Black Widow) in 2010’s Iron Man 2, opposite Robert Downey Jr. The actress has reprised her role in four follow-up films, and she had an uncredited cameo in 2017’s Thor: Ragnarok.
Marvel Studios president Kevin Faige has long said he wants to make a stand-alone movie centred around the character. Johansson is on board with the idea. In 2016 she told Variety that she pitched it to the studio often.
“It would have to fit in the idea of where they want to go,” she had explained.
“I’m invested in that character. Marvel is greatly invested in that character,” she had added.
