{"id":8605,"date":"2019-06-20T11:38:53","date_gmt":"2019-06-20T18:38:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog-proxy.atomtickets.com\/movie-news\/?p=8605"},"modified":"2019-06-21T11:43:42","modified_gmt":"2019-06-21T18:43:42","slug":"black-widow-prequel-will-be-marvels-better-call-saul-says-kevin-feige","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atomtickets.com\/movie-news\/black-widow-prequel-movie\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Black Widow’ Prequel Will Be Marvel’s ‘Better Call Saul,’ Says Kevin Feige"},"content":{"rendered":"

Marvel has yet to officially confirm or announce that Scarlett Johansson’s upcoming\u00a0Black Widow<\/em> movie is happening — or that it is a prequel (it totally is). But Kevin Feige has given us the next best thing.<\/p>\n

In a recent interview with io9 at the Spider-Man: Far From Home<\/em><\/a> junket, the Marvel Studios head addressed concerns about how going backward with Natasha will advance the future of Marvel’s Cinematic Universe in Phase Four.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are ways to do prequels that are less informative or answer questions you didn\u2019t necessarily have,\u201d Feige explained, \u201cand then there are ways to do prequels where you learn all sorts of things you never knew before.\u201d To help clarify where he stands on prequels, he sited one of the best in the genre —\u00a0Breaking Bad<\/em>‘s superior prequel series,\u00a0Better Call Saul.<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Feige considers the Breaking Bad<\/em> prequel series\u00a0“a wonderful example of a prequel that almost completely stands on its own apart from\u00a0Breaking Bad<\/em>\u00a0because it informs you about so many things you didn\u2019t know about before. So time will tell which way we\u2019ve gone with a supposed\u00a0Black Widow\u00a0<\/em>movie.\u201d<\/p>\n

Oh, Marvel and their coy song-and-dance… The “supposed”\u00a0Black Widow<\/em> movie Feige speaks of is a thing. And he knows it. It’s currently shooting and will likely be a centerpiece of Marvel’s Hall H presentation at Comic-Con this year, along with Marvel’s Disney+ presence and what the Phase Four plan looks like post-Endgame<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

While Feige all but denied knowing anything about the thing he totally knows everything about, what we\u00a0do<\/em> know is — per\u00a0The Hollywood Reporter<\/a> — the prequel’s spy thriller story will be an international-set one, “centering on\u00a0Natasha Romanoff, the spy and assassin who grew up being trained by the KGB before breaking from their grasp, becoming an agent of SHIELD and Avenger.\u201d<\/p>\n

Australian filmmaker Cate Shortland (Lore<\/em>) is directing, with a cast lead by Johansson, David Harbour (Stranger Things<\/em>), and\u00a0Midsommar<\/em>‘s Florence Pugh, who is reportedly<\/a> playing Black Widow’s spy equivalent in terms of skill set, but opposite her when it comes to morals. Sounds like Pugh’s character is to Black Widow what 006 was to James Bond in\u00a0GoldenEye<\/em>. Yelena Belova, anyone?<\/p>\n

We’ll find out how it all shakes out when Black Widow arrives in theaters next year, likely on the first week of May 2020 to kick off the summer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Marvel has yet to officially confirm or announce that Scarlett Johansson’s upcoming\u00a0Black Widow movie is happening — or that it is a prequel (it totally is). But Kevin Feige has given us the next best thing. In a recent interview with io9 at the Spider-Man: Far From Home junket, the Marvel Studios head addressed concerns […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":7387,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[71,51],"tags":[37,46],"class_list":["post-8605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-marvel","category-news","tag-news","tag-newspage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atomtickets.com\/movie-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atomtickets.com\/movie-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atomtickets.com\/movie-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atomtickets.com\/movie-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atomtickets.com\/movie-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8605"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/atomtickets.com\/movie-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8619,"href":"https:\/\/atomtickets.com\/movie-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8605\/revisions\/8619"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atomtickets.com\/movie-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atomtickets.com\/movie-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atomtickets.com\/movie-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atomtickets.com\/movie-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}