Is Scarlett Johansson switching groups?

Marvel's Black Widow is reportedly in talks to leap to DC Universe for a task in director Matt Reeves' The Batman Half II reverse star Robert Pattinson, PEOPLE has confirmed. The brand new movie is scheduled to start taking pictures within the spring.

Johansson performed Natasha Romanoff in a number of movies, together with 2012's The Avengers and because the titular star of 2021's Black Widow. She's been clear that she gained't be returning to the position, nonetheless, after the character died heroically in 2019's Avengers: Endgame. (It's a fancy timeline.)

"Natasha is lifeless. She is lifeless. She's lifeless. Okay?" Johansson mentioned in March. "[Fans] simply don't wish to imagine it. They're like, 'However she might come again!'"

Johansson famously resolved a authorized battle with Disney, which owns Marvel, in September 2021. The Misplaced in Translation star had filed a lawsuit in opposition to the media big in July, alleging that the Walt Disney Co. violated her contract when it launched Black Widow in theaters and on streaming service Disney+ on the identical time. She argued in her lawsuit that her compensation had been tied to how a lot the movie made on the field workplace and that she'd been assured that the movie can be a "theatrical launch."

The Jojo Rabbit star has, nonetheless, mentioned she would return to the Marvel Cinematic Universe behind the digital camera.

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"I believe the flicks that I like, which are large motion films, even have the human connectivity piece," she mentioned in the course of the Cannes Movie Competition. "Even producing Black Widow and being part of the manufacturing of that, and the event of the story, and the story between Natasha and Yelena [Florence Pugh]… [there is,] I believe, a method of doing it, a method of sustaining the integrity of the concept of human connection, household, disappointment, all the issues that had been themes in [her directorial debut, Eleanor the Great], and doing it in an enormous method in an enormous universe — there's methods of doing that… So, yeah, positively, it could possibly be, it will be enjoyable."

The Oscar-nominated actress would seem in entrance of the digital camera in The Batman sequel.

The Batman Half II director Reeves confirmed in June that he had handed within the completed script, co-written by Mattson Tomlin. The movie is scheduled to start filming in spring 2026, David Zaslav, head of father or mother firm Warner Bros. Discovery, revealed in an August earnings name with traders.

With Pattinson set to reprise his position because the Darkish Knight, The Batman Half II is scheduled for launch on Oct. 1, 2027. Costar Zoë Kravitz, who performed Selina Kyle (a.okay.a. Catwoman), is just not anticipated to look within the sequel, in line with Variety.

Leisure Weekly has reached out to DC, Warner Bros., and Johansson.

In the meantime, Johansson will star in Mike Flanagan's new Exorcist film, the director introduced final month. Common and Blumhouse hope to reboot the non secular horror franchise once more after scrapping a trilogy that was deliberate round 2023's The Exorcist: Believer. The as-yet unnamed movie would be the franchise's seventh in simply over 50 years and is about to shoot in New York Metropolis. Flanagan's movie will inform an all-new story set in The Exorcist universe and isn’t a sequel, in line with a November press launch.

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