Wait, Did Chris Evans Confirm That a Black Widow Movie Is Coming?

Marvel keeps a tight lid on its secrets, but it seems like Captain America himself may have just let one slip. In a recent interview, Chris Evans was discussing the unstoppable nature of the Marvel machine in relation to Black Panther’s success and future projects, and “Black Widow” was one of the names he casually rattled off.

Speaking to ET Canada over the weekend about Black Panther’s incredible weekend at the box office—which has only grown since we first started talking about it—Evans said, “There’s nothing they can’t do, man. And I’m sure it’s gonna have the exact same effect when Captain Marvel comes out, and then the Black Widow movie comes out … Marvel just has the winning recipe.”

But did he really mean it? It’s hard to tell, because he’s been a proponent of Marvel making that movie happen in the past, so it could be that he’s just speaking hypothetically—especially when a tentative Black Widow movie has been talked about by others within Marvel for years. However, Variety recently reported that a writer had been hired for the project, although it still hasn’t officially gotten the full green light from the studio.

Evans more than likely knows about that news and maybe other behind-the-scenes developments that we’re not aware of yet, and even if the movie still isn’t a sure thing at this point, it could already be in his mind. Or maybe he’s just trying to push Marvel into it by acting like everyone already knows it’s coming, which would be about the 18 millionth thing for us to love about him, and we very much support that strategy. Or he really does know what the plan is and slipped up here because he’s just that excited for Scarlett Johansson’s Black Widow to finally get the movie she deserves.

Whatever the case, these rumblings have us thinking about just what we would want to see in a Black Widow movie, and we’re interested in what everyone else is hoping for, too—even if Avangers: Infinity War stands to completely toss all our ideas out the window this summer anyway.

(via Inverse, image: screengrab)

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