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Dax needs to switch to decaf.

@MarkyMarkRises - "If there are any "mainstream" superheroes who need an R rated update in their current run of movies, it's Batman and Captain America."

I'd say Black Widow too.

Something in the same vein as The Americans focusing on the deeper, darker behind the scenes side of espionage. What I love about The Americans is how intense and intimate their missions and fight scenes are. It'd be great to see Black Widow breaking bones, stealthy stealing info. and putting all her spy training on full display. There's so many layers to being a spy and they do a brilliant job of showcasing most all of them. Seriously, if you haven't seen the Americans, I can't recommend it enough! It's smart, intense and entertaining. If you watch it, you know EXACTLY why it could work as a Black Widow movie.


And this excerpt from io9/Charlie Jane Ander's interview with Richard K. Morgan has some interesting, neat ideas about a Black Widow movie:

Why do you think it’s so hard to do justice to a character like Black Widow on screen? How would you like to see her presented?

I think you’ll never do justice to Natasha, on the blockbuster superhero screen at least, because doing so would be inimical to the whole edifice of superhero fiction. That’s a boys’ club and anyone who thinks otherwise is kidding themselves. It’s a franchise machine for feeding the atavistic appetites of 12-14 year old boys and men who’ve somehow grown up retaining a 12-14 year old boy heart.

That’s why all this hating on [Age of Ultron director Joss] Whedon is so unfair, or at least unreasonable — it’s not like he’s writing into a vacuum here; he’s getting paid to do a job, which is to sculpt (and allow in turn to be re-sculpted with studio-level input) a narrative for pre-existing characters that fits in with the Money-spinning Superhero Franchise Machine. Any attempt to write something that didn’t fit within the desired parameters would just earn him a re-direct in notes, and get eliminated in the next draft. Because that’s how the machine works.

You want a Black Widow movie, one that really does the Widow justice, in which she’s Subject rather than Object, you’ve got to cut loose of all that. Superhero fiction is all about atavistic archetypes made flesh, and that shit’s no good for empowered women. Strong, smart, self-reliant women who don’t need men to define them only crop up in the human myth-base in one guise — the Wicked Witch. You’ve got to take the narrative somewhere else. My personal vision? — treat it like an indie passion project; drop the budget, so you don’t have to rely on the broad comicbook fanbase to make your money back, pitch the script for minimum 15 cert, shoot for the crowd who went to see Casino Royale, the Bourne movies, Noomi Rapace in Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, and Angelina Jolie in Salt. Give it a real edge, give it some smarts. Dump the high camp paraphernalia of the Marvel universe and wipe off the perfect lipstick, go for a down and dirty vibe, blood and bruises and broken bones, vicious, desperate close-in combat, seventies-era spy paranoia and betrayal, and the Widow standing defiant in the face of it all. Get David Fincher or Paul Greengrass to direct, soundtrack by Health or Nine Inch Nails. Call it WIDOW: RUSSIAN STEEL, and backlight it in black. That, I’d pay money to see!

@ImKennyPowers

The Americans is [frick]ing addictive, it'd be a perfect influence for a Black Widow movie.

And that interview is spot on.