Scarlett Johansson has called for the Black Widow to get her own spin-off Marvel movie.
Speaking at the London Leicester Square premiere of Captain America: The Winter Soldier, in which she once again portrays the Russian S.H.I.E.L.D. agent, Johansson said she was ready to headline her own film if audiences demanded it.
“If you want to see a Black Widow spin-off movie, then I want to see it,” she told reporters on the red carpet. “We’ll see. We will put the request into Marvel tomorrow.”
Johansson once again takes a supporting role in The Winter Soldier, a sequel to 2011’s Captain America: The First Avenger. Fans of Marvel have pondered publicly why her character the Black Widow, aka Natasha Romanoff, has not yet been handed her own movie as the most high-profile female superhero in the Disney-owned studio’s big screen canon.
The Winter Soldier sees Romanoff and Captain America, played once again by Chris Evans, battling the titular mysterious Soviet-era Russian agent. It also stars Sebastian Stan, Anthony Mackie and Robert Redford (as a high-level operative at superhero agency S.H.I.E.L.D).
Reviews have so far been mostly positive. The Guardian’s Steve Rose reckons the film “gives the flagging comic-book movie an adrenaline shot of relevance” while Total Film’s Matt Maytum said the sequel “stands alone as a solidly entertaining blockbuster”. The Telegraph’s Robbie Collin, however, said The Winter Soldier ultimately fosters “disappointment that a film with a relatively spicy premise becomes, in the end, so risk-averse”.
