Another member of the unique Avengers group is driving off into the sundown.
In a latest interview, Scarlett Johansson introduced that she is “done” enjoying Marvel’s super-spy, Black Widow. While this isn’t essentially the most surprising information — Johansson’s character died whereas saving half the universe in Avengers: Endgame — it additionally wasn’t a foregone conclusion that Johansson was positively completed as Black Widow. She solely made her debut headlining her personal solo Black Widow movie after her character died. (The Black Widow film was a prequel.)
But Johansson instructed her Marvel co-star Gwyneth Paltrow that she’s transferring on from her superhero position in an episode of The Goop Podcast. Johansson stated…
I’m performed … [the] chapter is over. I form of did all that I needed to do. Also, coming again and enjoying a personality time and again like that, over a decade of time, is such a novel expertise.
For her half, Paltrow was much less sure that she had made her final Marvel look. “I didn’t die, she noted, “so they can always ask me.”
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Johnsson’s Marvel tenure didn’t finish on the very best of phrases. Shortly after Marvel launched Black Widow concurrently in theaters and on Disney+, Johansson sued the corporate, claiming the choice to place the movie on streaming price her thousands and thousands of {dollars} in wage. Johansson and Disney in the end settled their dispute in September of 2021.
The solely time Johansson was talked about by Marvel after that got here in November of 2021, when the studio’s president, Kevin Feige, alluded to her engaged on a “top secret Marvel Studios project … which he said has nothing to do with her Black Widow character, Natasha Romanoff.” It’s nonetheless not clear what that undertaking is or was imagined to be, or whether or not it’s nonetheless occurring. All instructed, Johansson appeared in 9 Marvel motion pictures: Iron Man 2, The Avengers, Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Avengers: Age of Ultron, Captain America: Civil War, Avengers: Infinity War, Captain Marvel (in a cameo), Avengers: Endgame, and Black Widow.
Johansson formally joins fellow Avengers stars Robert Downey Jr. and Chris Evans in Marvel retirement; that leaves solely Chris Hemsworth, Mark Ruffalo, and Jeremy Renner nonetheless actively showing as their Marvel heroes from that preliminary group lineup. Even with out Johansson, the MCU nonetheless has a Black Widow, Florence Pugh is the franchise’s new MCU, enjoying Natasha’s sister Yelena.
The subsequent Marvel Cinematic Universe film, Guardians of the Galaxy: Vol. 3, is scheduled to open in theatefrs on May 5.
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