Johansson was in Cannes this week with her debut as director of the film Eleanor The Great, starring June Squibb, Chiwetel Ejiofor and Jessica Heht.
Scarlett Johansson He has just released his first film as director in the Cannes 2025 Film Festival And he talked about the possibility of working with Marvel.
When Johansson, 40, sat down with the Deadline portal for an interview in Cannes, the actress turned into director said she would be open to potentially direct a movie from the movie Marvel cinematographic universe (UCM).
“I think that the movies that I like, which are great action movies, also have the part of human connectivity,” Johansson told the media, who significantly played the character of Natasha Romanoff / Black Widow in eight UCM films between Iron Man 2 2010 and Black Widow of 2021.
“Even producing black widow and being part of its production, the development of history and history between Natasha and Yelena … I think there is a way to do it, a way to maintain the integrity of the idea of human connection, family, disappointment, all the issues that were recurring in Eleanor The Great,” Johansson added. “Do it big in a huge universe … there are ways to do it … so, yes, it could definitely be, it will be fun.”.
Johansson was in Cannes this week with his debut as director of the film Eleanor The Greatstarring June Squibb, Chiwetel Ejiofor and Jessica Heht. The film “gives life to the ingeniously and proudly problematic Eleanor Morgenstein, 94, who, after a devastating loss, tells a story that takes on a dangerous life of his own,” says the official synopsis of the film in Cannes, which describes it as “a comically moving exploration of how the stories we hear become the stories we tell.”
The demand for Scarlett Johansson to Marvel
Any future work that Johansson could do with Disney and Marvel Studios It would arrive years after Johansson resolved a lawsuit filed against Disney in 2021 for his Black Widow compensation.
At that time, he accused the company of breaking its contract with Black Widow when premier His contract guaranteed an exclusive premiere in cinemas and that most of his salary depended on his performance at the box office. When Johansson and Disney resolved the demand, he declared that he expected to “continue his collaboration with Disney in the coming years.”
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