Jessica Gao recently opened up about her experience impressing Marvel bosses with her pitch for Black Widow and get rejected later. In a recent interview, she revealed some important details about her pitch for the MCU movie.
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Gao shared that in the past, she was more interested in She-Hulk, but she also had an idea of what to do with the Black Widow solo movie. Unfortunately for her, our Marvel bosses weren’t a big fan of the idea and turned down the plot.
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Jessica Gao’s Rejected ‘Black Widow’ Script Focused On A High School Reunion
It is still unknown when she pitched her idea for the film. Kevin Feige is said to have planned the idea of the Black Widow movie as early as 2016, years after fans showed enthusiasm for the idea, but it didn’t land until 2021. After that, it was during the pandemic phase and it got day and night streaming date and a trial of his star that goes with it. It was also a film with a serious tone compared to the light and playful tone of the She-Hulk.
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She shared the whole thing in an interview and talked about her original pitch for a Black Widow film:
“It was basically a ‘Gross Pointe Blank’ story for Black Widow…basically you find out that in high school, as a teenage Russian spy/agent, she was planted in an American high school, because she had to murder someone’s father, then 20 years later she goes back to the high school reunion and has to deal with the fallout of that fake identity where she betrayed all those people in high school.”
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Why Marvel Rejected Jessica Gao’s ‘Black Widow’ Idea?
Well the whole plan would have gone well exploring this character’s journey as a spy, most fans were supportive of the idea after knowing the backstory and were happy to have a movie at such a small ladder for Black Widow. Marvel thought Black Widow could do so much more, and had the potential to do more than play a movie at a high school reunion. However, some fans are grateful that Jessica Gao didn’t write the Black Widow project after learning about his idea for the film. The movie which came out in 2021 wasn’t going too well and fans felt a bit uneasy expecting the character to appear in his solo movie before dying in Avengers: Endgame 2019.
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Source: screenrant.com
