Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-33690333-20171119230642/@comment-33690333-20180125033834

So I've been planning a Black Widow show for some time, hopefully it'll be part of Phase 3's TV line-up. I know we have a lot of stuff being planned, thrown around, and pitched already, but I just wanted to share some ideas for that:

The show will focus on Natasha Romanoff and Ava Orlova, a young Black Widow-in-training, on the run from Yelena Belova, one of Natasha's former peers from the Red Room. Basically, after escaping from the Black Widow program, Natasha has become an international assassin, but after meeting Ava and being reminded of her own past trauma, Natasha decides to try and save this girl, which brings enemies from her past back to haunt her. Yelena would be the main antagonist, but the evil mastermind of the show could be either Aleksander Lukin and his Kronas Corporation, or the gamma-mutated Soviet super-scientist The Gremlin. I was thinking the show could even tie into Captain America 3 in some way, what with Black Widow and Winter Soldier both being Russian super-assassins. My big plan for the season finale is to have Natasha be recruited by SHIELD. Though I have a whole lot of different ideas for where Natasha and the other characters could go, I'm not sure if I'd do any more seasons. I'd still want to leave a few plot threads left unresolved, for potential future stories.

The only casting I really had in mind was Olga Kurylenko as Natasha Romanof and Milla Jovovich as Yelena Belova, but if I were to use Gremlin, I'd probably cast Peter Dinklage.