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A solo movie featuring Avengers character Black Widow has gained support from Robert Downey Jr and Stan Lee.
Downey Jr – who plays Iron Man in the Avengers series – said that it makes sense for Scarlett Johansson’s leather-clad assassin to appear in her own adventure.
He told USA Today: “I think that the interesting thing particularly after Guardians with Zoe [Saldana, or] even from the first Iron Man where Pepper was kind of this really – to me the Iron Man franchise would never have taken off without [Gwyneth] Paltrow.
“There’s something about her that grounded the story. She’s not your typical lady in a superhero movie, and then by Iron Man 3 she’s swallowing serums and putting on suits and kicking [butt] and all that stuff.
“But it would be kind of more appropriate for a character that already was like a Black Widow [to lead a movie]. It just seems like whatever Scarlett does, people want to go see it.”
Black Widow co-creator Lee, who holds a largely ceremonial position at Marvel Studios these days, appeared to confirm that the project is in development during a recent appearance at Fan Expo Canada.
“We haven’t made a Black Widow movie but she’s been in some of our movies, and she will be featured more prominently as we move forward,” CBR quotes him as saying.
“And the chances are she will have her own movie because eventually all the superheroes are going to have their own movies.
“They are already working on Ant-Man, Dr Strange and The Black Panther and there are others I am not allowed to talk about.”
Johansson has appeared as Black Widow in three films to date – Iron Man 2, The Avengers and Captain America 2 – and is due to reprise the role in next year’s Avengers sequel.