Black Widow Movie Director Shortlist Now Down to 3 Frontrunners

It appear the theater director shortlist for Marvel’sBlack Widowmovie has been narrowed down to three frontrunners . Marvel Studios has been very thorough in its search for a filmmaker to call the shots on Natasha Romanoff ’s solo fomite . So far , the studio hasmet with more than 65 different directorsabout theBlack Widowfilm , the vast majority ( if not all ) of which have been women . Black Widowis expected to be one of the first moving-picture show released as part of Phase 4 of the Marvel Cinematic Universe , which helps explain why Marvel is so keen to lock down a director for the projection asap .

Just yesterday , it come forth thatdirector Cate Shortland(Berlin Syndrome ) may well be Marvel ’s top pick to overseeBlack Widownow . However , in a small update , it has been break that two other filmmaker who met with Marvel Studios lead Kevin Feige and Black Widow herself , Scarlett Johansson , earlier in the appendage are still very much in contention for the occupation .

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Deadlinebroke the news program about Shortland , but has since learned that Amma Asante and Maggie Betts are also frontrunners to directBlack Widowat this join . Like Shortland , Asante and Betts also recently encounter with Feige and Johansson to discuss their imaginativeness for the moving picture . As mentioned earlier , Asante and Betts were further among the 65 directors that met with Marvel Studios to begin with on in their hunt for aBlack Widowhelmsman . It sounds like Shortland is still at the front of the pipeline , butDeadline ’s rootage are cautioning " not to reckon out " the other two .

Asante and Betts , like Shortland , are new to the tentpole scene but have a decorated background knowledge in arthouse and indie filmmaking . In addition to having direct the acclaimed historical dramasBelleandA United Kingdom , Asante is already attach to another spy movie in the shape of the Cold War era thriller , The Billion Dollar Spy . Meanwhile , Betts is coming off a successful feature of speech directing debut last twelvemonth , on the spiritual dramaNovitiate(starring Oscar - winner Melissa Leo ) .

All threeBlack Widowdirector frontrunners are strong choice , which assign Marvel in a comfortable place when it comes to selecting their prospect . At the same sentence , it would be great to see Asante or Betts land the problem , since that would make them the first char of colouring material to direct an MCU film . Fellow comic book movie studio DC has already gotten a forefront - start on Marvel in that respectfulness , now that they have Cathy Yan set to helm theBirds of Preymovie . The pressure is on Marvel Studios to follow suit of clothes , so here ’s to hoping they do it soon ( be it withBlack Widowor another Phase 4 film ) .