Marvel Comics is to reveal the backstory of its Black Widow character in a new minseries titled Deadly Origin. The Soviet assassin first appeared as an Iron Man villain in 1964, and is due to feature alongside the character on the big screen in next year’s Iron Man 2, played by Scarlett Johansson. Captain Britain scribe Paul Cornell has written the series for Marvel and Tom Raney has provided artwork. “A hidden enemy is killing everyone our heroine Natalia has ever been close to: romantic partners, friends, people she was kind to in passing,” Cornell wrote on his blog. “The first issue has guest appearances by Wolverine, the Winter Soldier and Joe Stalin, flashbacks courtesy of John Paul Leon.” Marvel is also reissuing the character’s most significant appearances as two hardcover collections – Iron Man: Deadly Solutions and Black Widow: Web Of Intrigue – to acquaint fans with the identity prior to Iron Man 2‘s release. Black Widow: Deadly Origin #1 is available now.
Scarlett was voted #04 at The 100 Sexiest Movie Stars list! Here’s what they had to say on her:
With a voice just north of Meredith McCambridge’s Exorcist drawl and a perfectly proportioned body, ScarJo is made almost exactly like they used to be. An old-school movie star, with an old-school movie star body and pipes, she’s so perfectly suited to noir that you half expect her to be in black and white.
Most alluring as… The provocative and coquettish Nola Rice in Woody Allen’s Match Point. Allen and alluring are two concepts that are usually strange bedfellows, but we remind you of her rain-soaked tryst with Jonathan Rhys Meyers. Case closed.
Interests include… Trying to get a musical career off the ground, lending that smoky voice to an album of Tom Waits covers (awful), and a recent album with Pete Yorn (surprisingly not awful).
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Actress Scarlett Johansson will make her Broadway debut starring in a revival of American playwright Arthur Miller’s drama A View from the Bridge, the show’s organizers said on Monday. Amid a growing trend of Hollywood stars appearing in Broadway plays, Johansson, 24, will appear on the Great White Way opposite actor Liev Schreiber in the drama set in 1950s America about a Brooklyn dockyard worker obsessed with his 17-year-old niece, to be played by Johansson. Previews will begin December 28 and the show will run for 14 weeks. Johansson’s list of films include The Horse Whisperer, Lost in Translation and Woody Allen’s Match Point in 2005. She also released an album this year with U.S. singer Pete Yorn. Schreiber has already appeared on Broadway several times, including winning a Tony award, as well as in films. Other high-profile film actor’s to have appeared on Broadway this year include Jude law, Hugh Jackman, Daniel Craig, Sienna Miller and Catherine Zeta-Jones. Strong ticket sales in the 2008/2009 Broadway season have been credited to the concentration of big name stars and Broadway producers have said it is now essential to have Hollywood stars to ensure big profits in plays on Broadway.
Keira Knightley has beaten Scarlett Johansson to land the part of Eliza Doolittle in a new film adaptation of My Fair Lady, it has emerged. Now the 24-year-old actress will be seen starring in the film which will be directed by Joe Wright. “Joe and Keira are looking forward to working together again immensely,” says a friend of the 37-year-old director. In August, it was reported that Knightley had been forced to compete with Johansson, 24, for the role of the Cockney flower seller played by Audrey Hepburn in the 1964 film, reports The Telegraph. “I have two actresses as potential Elizas, one British, the other American,” said Sir Cameron Mackintosh, who is producing the film with Duncan Kenworthy, at the time. “You’d know their names, but I’m not letting on,” he added. Recently, Kenworthy said: “I think Keira would be absolutely fabulous in it.” Emma Thompson is writing the film’s script, for which Daniel Craig has been mooted as a possible Professor Henry Higgins.
Singer/songwriter Pete Yorn had no idea Scarlett Johansson could sing when he asked her to be part of his latest musical project – and feels like he struck gold. Yorn confesses he dreamed up a collaboration with Johansson after listening to Serge Gainsbourg’s 1960s recordings with Brigitte Bardot, and he admits he was more interested in his music partner’s sexual allure than her singing abilities when he got in touch with her back in 2006. He says, “It (her singing) wouldn’t have mattered. It was more about her presence and attitude. But I got lucky that she has an amazing voice… she picked up everything really fast.” Johansson made her music debut last year with an album of Tom Waits covers, entitled Anywhere I Lay My Head. Yorn and Johansson’s new album, Break Up, has been critically acclaimed.
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