One other member of the unique Avengers staff is driving off into the sundown.
In a latest interview, Scarlett Johansson introduced that she is “carried out” enjoying Marvel’s super-spy, Black Widow. Whereas this isn’t probably the most surprising information — Johansson’s character died whereas saving half the universe in Avengers: Endgame — it additionally wasn’t a foregone conclusion that Johansson was undoubtedly completed as Black Widow. She solely made her debut headlining her personal solo Black Widow movie after her character died. (The Black Widow film was a prequel.)
However Johansson informed her Marvel co-star Gwyneth Paltrow that she’s transferring on from her superhero function in an episode of The Goop Podcast. Johansson mentioned…
I’m carried out … [the] chapter is over. I form of did all that I needed to do. Additionally, coming again and enjoying a personality many times like that, over a decade of time, is such a novel expertise.
For her half, Paltrow was much less sure that she had made her final Marvel look. “I didn’t die, she famous, “to allow them to all the time ask me.”
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Johnsson’s Marvel tenure didn’t finish on the very best of phrases. Shortly after Marvel launched Black Widow concurrently in theaters and on Disney+, Johansson sued the corporate, claiming the choice to place the movie on streaming value her tens of millions of {dollars} in wage. Johansson and Disney finally settled their dispute in September of 2021.
The one time Johansson was talked about by Marvel after that got here in November of 2021, when the studio’s president, Kevin Feige, alluded to her engaged on a “high secret Marvel Studios mission … which he mentioned has nothing to do together with her Black Widow character, Natasha Romanoff.” It’s nonetheless not clear what that mission is or was presupposed to be, or whether or not it’s nonetheless taking place. All informed, Johansson appeared in 9 Marvel films: Iron Man 2, The Avengers, Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Avengers: Age of Ultron, Captain America: Civil Conflict, Avengers: Infinity Conflict, Captain Marvel (in a cameo), Avengers: Endgame, and Black Widow.
Johansson formally joins fellow Avengers stars Robert Downey Jr. and Chris Evans in Marvel retirement; that leaves solely Chris Hemsworth, Mark Ruffalo, and Jeremy Renner nonetheless actively showing as their Marvel heroes from that preliminary staff lineup. Even with out Johansson, the MCU nonetheless has a Black Widow, Florence Pugh is the franchise’s new MCU, enjoying Natasha’s sister Yelena.
The following Marvel Cinematic Universe film, Guardians of the Galaxy: Vol. 3, is scheduled to open in theatefrs on Might 5.
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