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I came across this article online: What Could’ve Been: a Black Widow solo film.

Over recent years I've heard a lot of reports that "there will be a Black widow movie", "there will be no Black Widow movie" and now again, I've heard it said there will be a Black Widow movie, though IMDb doesn't seem to know about it yet. With the success of The Avengers, there should be a Black Widow movie: all my friends think so. Prefereably one that tells the story of Black Widow and Hawkeye and what happened in Budapest.

Yes, of cousre I want a Black Widow movie. Myself I'd like a Paul Gulacy-type film noir Black Widow, but I'd also be happy with a movie in the style of The Avengers with Scarlett Johannson. No problem there.

But reading this article, what caught my eye was:

If things had worked out, the movie would’ve been written and directed by David Hayter, a writer on the first two X-Men movies

...And right there I stopped wanting that movie. The guy who worked on X-Men, right, where the women were either weepy eye-candy or silent observers and the men had all the personality. The movies that ignored Kitty Pryde and made Storm into an automaton.

Maybe this time Hayter would do better. But do I have any confidence in that? No. I do not. They had three chances to get the X-Men women right, and blew it each time.

I think we dodged a bullet.

If they do make a Black Widow movie, let Joss Whedon write and direct it. He isn't perfect, but he knows which mistakes not to make.

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