Black Widow Lawsuit Fallout Could Cost Marvel More Than Money

| September 6, 2021 |

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The Russo Brothers At The Captain America: The Winter Soldier Premiere

Scarlett Johansson's Black Widow lawsuit was predicted to accept major ramifications for Disney, Marvel and Hollywood itself when details of it offset emerged at the cease of July, and the legal action already appears to accept had a domino upshot on Marvel's future movies.

The extent of Johansson's unhappiness with the treatment of her solo Marvel blockbuster was crystal clear when she decided to sue Disney over breach of contract after Black Widow debuted in theatres and on the Disney+ streaming service at the same fourth dimension. The actress said she had been given a "guarantee" from Disney that the film would go an exclusive theatrical release, and they had seemingly broken that agreement.

Multifariousness predicted that Johansson's lawsuit might "impact the way that movie stars are compensated in the streaming era and may inspire a wave of fresh legal action by actors upset that their films are non exclusively debuting in theaters", but information technology looks like it may take also put the Russo brothers off returning to straight some other MCU installment, co-ordinate to a report from The Wall Street Journal.

Anthony and Joe Russo have been at the captain of some of Marvel Studios' virtually ambitious and successful projects to date, including Captain America: The Winter Soldier , Captain America: Civil War , Avengers: Infinity War , and Avengers: Endgame , simply the new report says that the pair have now striking an "impasse" with Curiosity cheers to the ongoing Black Widow lawsuit.

"Since the lawsuit, brothers Joe Russo and Anthony Russo, directors of Marvel's Avengers: Endgame , the highest-grossing motion-picture show of all time, hit an impasse in negotiations to direct another Curiosity movie," the WSJ noted, adding "The Johansson dispute left them unsure how their next movie would be distributed and how they would exist paid, according to people familiar with the matter."

It's unclear which Curiosity projection the duo were in line to directly next, merely Joe Russo has previously revealed that he'd exist nifty to helm a Secret Wars film.

"That was one of the first books that I really cruel in love with as a kid," he told MTV in 2019. "This notion of, you lot know, outcome storytelling, and I think that'southward office of the reason that we gravitate so strongly towards these event films and these ensemble films is the notion that y'all can comprise so many dissimilar characters and then many unlike points of view and galvanize them around a story signal is actually compelling to us."

Marvel have been heavily-rumored exist planning a Secret Wars project for some time, and information technology's a potentially huge one that could feature not only the Avengers, simply the X-Men and the Fantastic Iv going into boxing together.

Secret Wars author Jim Shooter recently claimed he'd had a call from Marvel regarding the potential use of some characters utilized in the original Marvel Comics run, including the Beyonder, Titania and Spider-Woman, and Marvel dominate Kevin Feige finally addressed the growing churr in an interview last month.

"I've seen those rumors also," he told Comicbook. "Why is everyone talking most that at present? That's what I want to know. I call up i person writes about it, and and so another person writes about it, and then everybody'southward writing about it, and then it'southward happening. Secret Wars is a dandy, giant crossover. There are a lot of great, giant crossovers that we could [accommodate] — it's the ongoing embarrassment of riches of Marvel Comics."

If Marvel were e'er planning to brand a Secret Wars flick with the Russos, or whatsoever other huge crossover movie, they could notice it to be an even bigger task than they beginning envisaged if Johansson's lawsuit has started affecting negotiations with yet more than of their reliable regular collaborators.