Kevin Feige Compares ‘Black Widow’ Movie To ‘Better Call Saul’
If you sawAvengers: Endgame– and I know you totally did – you might have come away wondering how Marvel is going to move ahead with theirBlack Widowmovie. The answer seems obvious: prequel time, baby! And in case there was ever any doubt, Marvel Studios PresidentKevin Feigerecently spoke about the upcoming film, and compared it to another high-profile prequel:Better Call Saul.
Scarlett Johansson’s Black Widow sacrificed her life inAvengers:Endgame, and while there’s always a chance dead characters can come back – especially in comic book movies – Marvel has decided to work around that by making the standaloneBlack Widowmovie a prequel. When recently asked about howBlack Widowwould all play out, Kevin Feige toldi09:
There’s that word –prequel. Not clear enough for you? Don’t worry, Feige kept going:
“I look atBetter Call Saulas a wonderful example of a prequel that almost completely stands on its own apart fromBreaking Badbecause it informs you about so many things you didn’t know about before…So time will tell which way we’ve gone with a supposedBlack Widowmovie.”
That last sentence gives Feige a playful way of issuing a non-denial denial (Marvel has yet toofficiallyconfirm this movie, even though it’s already begun filming), but the implication is clear.Black Widowwill be a prequel in the same vein asBetter Call Saul.Better Call Sauloriginally started off seeming like nothing more than aBreaking Badprequel. And it is, technically. But over the course of the years, the series has formed an identity all it own, seemingly completely independent fromBreaking Bad. It looks like this is what Marvel is hoping for withBlack Widow– something that’s a prequel, but that also works as its own thing.
Black Widowis being helmed byCate Shortland, with a script fromJac SchaefferandNed Benson. Johansson is joined in the cast byFlorence Pugh,David Harbour, andRachel Weisz. Filming is underway and expected to last until September. No release date has been announced yet, because Marvel is being very cagey with their future films. But I imagine they’ll reveal a lot more about this film – and more – when San Diego Comic-Con kicks off next month.
