Marvel’s Black Widow Film Lands Director

Black Widow

Australian female director Cate Shortland has landed her next gig, and it’s not a small film like Somersault or Lore, both of which you may have never even heard of. Tt’s a standalone Black Widow film. Right, that Black Widow from The Avengers.

The Hollywood Reporter has all the details about why Shortland was chosen, and THR says that over 70 directors were called in to be the one to sit in the director’s chair. As long as Shortland signs on the dotted line, this will mark the first female solo-directed film from Marvel Studios since Captain Marvel signed up the directing team of Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck.

One last detail from the report was that THR has heard that this standalone film is set before the events of the first Avengers film. So whether that’s also before Iron Man 2, where the character made her big screen debut, or in-between Iron Man 2 and The Avengers has yet to be clarified.

Jac Schaffer was hired in January to write a draft for the film. Marvel Studios has kept their lips sealed as far as which films will be released after 2019, where we’ll see Captain Marvel, the 4th Avengers film, and Spider-Man: Far from Home, so the earliest we can guess that Black Widow could premiere is 2020, but we may not know if that will be the case for quite some time.

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