SDCC 2016: Joss Whedon Up For Doing Black Widow Film
During an interview with IGN, Joss Whedon was asked about being a part of a potential Black Widow film. He answered thusly:
“If someone pointed at me and said, ‘Do you want to do a Black Widow movie?’, the answer would be ‘Duh!’
He went on in more detail about what he loves about the character:
“I think that character really is very interesting and very earthbound, so it’s the kind of action that I got to do less of with somebody like Thor or The Vision,” Whedon said. “When you get into your ‘Superman’ territory it’s harder to maintain the gritty action that the Russo brothers do so brilliantly and she’s got that kind of thing and [you can] really do a spy thriller. Like really do a good, paranoid, ‘John le Carré on crack’ sort of thing. That would be really fun.”
There’s also the matter of the woman who brings Black Widow to life on screen.
“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,” he said.