Black Widow Almost Got A Movie Before Iron Man—But The Studio Killed It

While Marvel Studios has yet to release a female person - led superhero movie , Black Widow had a chance to beat fellow Avengers Iron Man and Thor to the magnanimous screen . And the reason it did n’t happen is pretty rage - inducement .

Spinoff Onlinetakes us back to the twelvemonth 2004 , before Marvel was making its own motion-picture show . David Hayter , who had just write the screenplay for X - Men and co - written X2 , wrote a opprobrious Widow screenplay for his directorial first appearance at Lionsgate . But once the screenplay was complete , Lionsgate resolve it did n’t want a Black Widow movie anymore . In Hayter ’s words :

Unfortunately , as I was coming up on the final draft , a number of distaff vigilante movies came out . We had Tomb Raider and Kill Bill , which were the single that worked , but then we had BloodRayne and Ultraviolet and Aeon Flux . Aeon Flux did n’t open well , and three days after it opened , the studio apartment said , “ We do n’t consider it ’s time to do this movie . ” I accepted their logic in terms of the intensity of the marketplace , but it was passably painful .

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Marvel , for the phonograph record , did examine to snitch the motion-picture show around to other studios before amaze the rights to Black Widow back and putting her in Iron Man 2 .

Uh - huh . So one female person - lead action movie flop and it ’s because of “ the saturation of the marketplace”—and not because Aeon Flux was a crummy moving-picture show ? Look , I do n’t have a go at it if this Black Widow motion-picture show would have been as good as what ’s coming out of the Marvel Cinematic Universe — or that it would have been as satisfying an interpretation of Natasha Romanoff . But it ’s thwarting to see this meme that audiences are n’t particularly interested in female action at law hoagie played out , especially when , a decade subsequently , we ’re still clamor for our distaff superhero solo movies .

picture show caption unwrap | Black Widow about Beat Iron Man to the Big Screen[Spinoff Online viaThe Mary Sue ]

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