Marvel's 'Black Widow' gets one step closer to reality with a new director
 

Marvel's 'Black Widow' gets one step closer to reality with a new director
https://i.amz.mshcdn.com/ESEaQcUCI03...d967d5d0ab.jpghttps://a.amz.mshcdn.com/assets/feed...8be198fb13.jpghttps://a.amz.mshcdn.com/assets/feed...6a4ca77139.jpg
Marvel's Black Widow just got one step closer to emerging from perpetual pre-production purgatory.

The studio has reportedly set Cate Shortland, the Australian filmmaker known for dramas like Somersault, Lore, and Berlin Syndrome, to direct the standalone superhero adventure.

SEE ALSO: 'Captain Marvel' hires 'Fortnite' composer Pinar Toprak, the first woman to score a Marvel film


Shortland beat out around seventy other candidates in the grueling search for the perfect director. She'll be the second female director behind a Marvel Cinematic Universe movie – joining Anna Boden, who's directing Captain Marvel with Ryan Fleck.* Read more...

More about Entertainment, Marvel Studios, Scarlett Johansson, Marvel Cinematic Universe, and Black Widowhttp://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Mashable/~4/JXestUDuLrg