Perhaps most notably, while Natasha Romanoff often spends much of the Avengers movies and Captain America movies doing high-flying acrobatics and using cool gadgets, Red Sparrow will lean far more heavily on a grounded sensibility in which Jennifer Lawrence’s Dominika Egorova will need to use her body and her mind to escape danger.
Despite some of the inherent similarities shared between Red Sparrow and Black Widow, Francis Lawrence made sure to note the differences between them in his conversation with Screen Rant.
As much as fans want to classify them as similar ideas, Francis Lawrence asserts that Sparrow is a wholly unique story that sticks to a more realistic and authentic sensibility.
Both are female, Russian assassins, but the stories do not cross-pollinate beyond that core idea and share much in terms of tone or style.