According to the reports, the director of Substance Coralie Fargeat was contacted by Marvel to the Black Widow of Helm 2021. However, the director rejected the offer to focus on her Oscar -nominated horror film, according to a new report.
By variety, a source revealed that Fargeat rejected “lucrative offers” to maintain a complete creative control of the substance. This included his cuts “Preliminary talks with Marvel, who had approached her to direct the 2021 black widow”.
Natasha Romanoff's focused spin-off was led by Cate Shortland, and followed Scarlett Johansson as a black widow during Captain America's events: the civil war. Florence Pugh, David Harbor, William Hurt, Ray Winstone and Rachel Weisz also starred in the film.
Fargeat, meanwhile, remained focused on the horror of his body of his substance. It stars Demi Moore as Elisabeth Sparkle, an actor who decides to take a drug from the black market after being fired during her age. It helps you create a younger version of itself, played by Margaret Qualley, but there are some unexpected and spooky side effects.
“I clung so strong during the movie and the difficult post -production phase, when everyone wanted him to make him less violent, less excessive, less bloody, less frontal,” Fargeat told Variety about the film, which has been nominated for Several awards at the 2025 Oscars. “I knew that I had written this movie to be more than, or at least at the same level as, what I am denouncing in the movie.”
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