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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
They could do her without the fourth-wall breaking. She mostly does it for her legal cases, with things like the use of older comics as evidence; this can be written around.
It wouldn't really be the same, though.
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.Three films a year model! Yes! At first on hearing that Ant-Man and The Wasp had been slotted in I thought Captain Marvel would be knocked behind infinity war 2, but actually, it's still cool! Yes! I got mote diversity in the MCU slate when I was expecting less!
Marvel's model seems to be at least one sequel and new property a year. New properties will have a sequel slot reserved, but not committed to, and characters or elements will appear in an upcoming cross over before release to encourage investment in these new characters.
Captain Marvel's Meg Le Fauve explains the trick to writing powerful characters
I suspect that 2 of the empty slots aren't so much planned for films that they don't want to announce as planned to be filled with sequels to something. They might to know what they'll be sequels to, but they probably realise that they're going to have something that was a good enough success to merit a sequel by that point. Be it Guardians 3, Ant Man 3, Strange 2, Captain Mavel 2, Black Panther 2, Spider Man 2 or something else. In the end something will be in a position to get a sequel at that point and they can slot it in.
Sadly I don't think we will get a Black Widow solo film, not just because of the lack of interest in a no-power badass normal film, but also because Black Widow is now tied to but not central to the existing arch. Captain American films can push the greater marvel arch forward, but a Black Widow film done right is going to be a spy film, a Bond style one. The kind of stuff we want to see Black Widow do is the stuff she did solo while working for SHEILD or the Russians, but I don't think they're taking the character is that direction now, she's part of a team and part of the establishment, her going off solo to do cool Bond style spy stuff may not fit with where she is in universe.
It's the same reason I doubt we'll get a Vison film or a Scarlet Witch film, those characters are now tied to the Avengers and the non-avengers multi-character films, they don't really operate solo. Hell I'd say that Hulk may also be going that way. Though Hulk may be saved from it when they reach the point with tech that they can make proper character out of Hulk rather than Banner.
“And the Bunny nails it!” ~ Gabrael “If the UN can get through a day without everyone strangling everyone else so can we.” ~ CyranI wouldn't mind a Black Widow prequel in the vein of the Ant-Man flashbacks and whatever they're likely planning for the sequel. Or alternatively the execution is like The Winter Soldier or Guardians of the Galaxy and she's the leader of a ragtag team.
Scarlet Witch actually has her own upcoming solo series where she helps out witches. They could actually do something interesting with that. A wandering atoner.
edited 8th Oct '15 8:57:47 PM by AlleyOop
I'm iffy on the idea of a Black Widow movie. On the one hand she's pretty awesome and it would be neat to see her as the lead, but on the other I feel like she works better infiltrating everyone else's movies and being a general-purpose MCU character like Hawkeye and Fury rather than having her own separate series.
You cannot firmly grasp the true form of Squidward's technique!If we do get a Widow movie, I would hope it would be set in the past and had tons of Dramatic Irony about SHIELD.
edited 8th Oct '15 9:57:33 PM by KnownUnknown
On a different note, Disney managed to move past the 4 billion mark again. And the year is not even close to being over.
It is kind of scary what will happen if they ever manage to put out a good Pixar movie, a good Animation Studio movie, three Marvel Blockbusters and one of their fairy tale movies in one year...

Oh, I'm not saying they wouldn't put it in production, I just don't think they'd announce it. That way it's easier to cancel in the unlikely scenario that, say, Doctor Strange comes out and bombs or something.
Once they say, "We are definitively and without question making this movie," then they have to deal with disappointing fans if they don't make the movie. By planning a sequel but holding off on announcement until they're certain it's a thing they both can and will follow through on, it's easier to sweep it under the rug if it doesn't get made.
Like that Hulk movie starring the Leader that was clearly set up in the first Hulk movie but has never been announced.
edited 8th Oct '15 3:16:09 PM by TobiasDrake
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