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Black Widow: Directed by Cate Shortland. With Scarlett Johansson, Florence Pugh, Rachel Weisz, David Harbour. Natasha Romanoff confronts the darker parts of her ledger when a dangerous conspiracy with ties to her past arises.
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- Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
- Cate Shortland
- 2021-07-09
Jul 6, 2021 · Cate Shortland, the first woman to solo direct a Marvel movie, sits down in a new interview to talk about the Black Widow movie grapples with Natasha’s death in Avengers: Endgame and her ...
- Matt Patches
Black Widow is a 2021 American superhero film based on Marvel Comics featuring the character of the same name. Produced by Marvel Studios and distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures, it is the 24th film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU).
- 'It Was Like A Courtship, Really'
- Family and Female Allyship
- Building The Story
- The 'Cate Shortland' Touch
- The 'Marvel Machine' vs Reality
Speaking about the process on the eve of Black Widow's Australian release, Shortland says "It was like a courtship, really". "It was just a dialogue between Scarlett and I on Zoom. We chatted … we just worked out if we got on. And we sent each other some lists of our favourite films and our favourite songs, and what kind of film we both were intere...
Black Widow sets Natasha Romanoff on a journey from the conflicted, guilt-ridden Avenger who turns on her colleagues in Captain America: Civil War, to self-acceptance and forgiveness. Her journey requires her to deep dive into her early-life trauma and years in the 'Red Room', a training and brainwashing program turning at-risk girls into assassins...
Shortland took the Black Widow gig, script unseen; but she says the creative team were given carte blanche to develop Natasha's backstory. "I worked with a Russian historian in London to build a history of where she would've been born, what her mother would've been like, why her mother would've given her up and what her childhood would've been like...
Black Widow opens with a scene from our protagonist's childhood in Ohio, at the end of which perhaps the last vestiges of the young Natasha's 'innocence' are stripped entirely away. The first time we see Johansson's 30-something Natasha in Black Widow, she is alone and in a bathroom. The confined space, fluorescent lights and hand-held, close-up ca...
Shortland says Taika Waititi (Thor: Ragnarok) gave her some good advice in 2018. "When I first came on he said, just know that everything is going to get built up and ripped down. And that the strongest [ideas], or the essence of the idea, will survive," she told The Screen Show. "What's great about the way Marvel works is they're not afraid to emb...
- Dee Jefferson
Jul 2, 2021 · Natasha Romanoff, the Russian agent turned U.S. spy played by Scarlett Johansson, first meets Tony Stark, a.k.a. Iron Man (Robert Downey Jr.) when he’s working out in a boxing ring with his...
- Eliana Dockterman
Jul 13, 2018 · For one, it will actually be directed by a woman: Cate Shortland. Today, it was announced that Shortland, best known for the 2012 Nazi historical drama Lore, would be helming the production....
Jul 9, 2021 · Black Widow is directed by Cate Shortland (SMILF), one of the few female directors hired (thus far) by Marvel Studios. Black Widow's screenplay was penned by Eric Pearson (Thor: Ragnarok, Godzilla vs Kong) with a story by Jac Schaeffer (WandaVision, The Hustle) and Ned Benson (The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby trilogy).
