Black Widow: Marvel finally moving ahead with standalone film
Film fans have been awaiting the character's solo outing since her debut in 2010
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Your support makes all the difference.Popular Marvel character Black Widow is finally being treated to her own film with a writer officially in place.
According to Variety, the studio has pulled in Jac Schaeffer to write the currently untitled film making good on its promise to bring fans the standalone film they've been wanting.
Marvel fans have long questioned why the character - played by Scarlett Johansson - hasn't been handed her own film despite appearing in five previous films including Iron Man 2, Avengers Assemble and Captain America: Civil War. She'll next be seen in Avengers: Infinity War released in the UK this April.
The project is yet to be given the official greenlight, however, the fact it's in the early development stages is a hugely promising notion. Schaeffer's previous credits include the Disney short Olaf's Frozen Adventure while her name will be attached to Nasty Women, the forthcoming all-female Dirty Rotten Scoundrels remake starring Anne Hathaway and Rebel Wilson.
Should Black Widow - real name Natasha Romanoff - make it to production, it's likely it'll arrive beyond its next phase which looks to be kickstarted by Black Panther next February.
It won't be the first time a female superhero has led a Marvel film - that will go to both Brie Larson's Captain Marvel as well as Lost star Evangeline Lilly's The Wasp who shares the title role of Ant-Man and the Wasp with Paul Rudd.
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