Argentinian auteur Lucrecia Martel has revealed she was approached by Marvel to direct the forthcoming Black Widow film starring Scarlett Johansson, in what would have been a directorial choice remarkable even by Marvel’s idiosyncratic standards.
Martel joked: “Just in case any of this is going to be on YouTube, I would love to make Black Widow.”
Martel said that despite their attempts to recruit women directors, Marvel still mistrusted them in certain aspects of production.
I was thinking, well I would love to meet Scarlett Johansson, but also I would love to make the action sequences …