Black Widow

Despite how the rest of this post sounds, I will be watching the Black Widow movie in the cinema.  Because you know, explosions and Natasha Romanov (and Rachel Weisz).

The trailers however do not match up to the film I imagined when I heard the words "will also star Rachel Weisz".  Because the film in my dreams (let's be honest *of* my dreams) when I hear that is very different.  It has Rachel Weisz as one of the people who trains a teenage (almost Red Room graduate) Natasha, and she is nasty and horrible and beautiful, charming and alluring all at once.  She's the prototypical Black Widow.

She's also Natasha's handler/co-agent for her first real mission (basically, I want comparisons drawn to Hawkeye in absentia).  Somehow, Weisz's character saves Natasha's life and then goes rogue.  (Or saves her life from an enemy, stabs her to incapacitate her and then goes rogue), and Natasha has to hunt her down.   I'm not sure which reason for defection would be better, for the money or to the side of good.  For the money would be a more personal betrayal, but to the side of good has the possibility of being part of Black Widow's origin story.

Or, Weisz's character never goes rogue, but goes into sleeper agent mode instead, living as an American housewife.  Then, she's reactivated after Natasha joins SHIELD, because the bad guys want to bring Natasha down.  This all happens early enough that Natasha's loyalties are still in doubt (to everyone but Fury and Hawkeye) and Natasha has to hunt her down.

There's so much potential for twisty and dark and "who am I?  Who can I be?" that they don't seem to be using.

They have two solid actresses, why don't they let them do more than (probably enjoyable) kaboomery.