Post by politicidal1 on Dec 31, 2023 20:29:01 GMT
The Metal Gear voice actor helped to write movies such as X-Men, X2, and Watchmen. Back in the early 2000s, when the character rights were still with Lionsgate, David Hayter was tasked with writing and directing a Black Widow movie. But here's what he said happened.
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“What I tried to do was use the backdrop of the splintered Soviet Empire—a lawless insane asylum with 400-some odd nuclear missile silos,” Hayter later said of the script for his Black Widow movie, via Warped Factor. “It was all about loose nukes, and I felt it was very timely and very cool. Unfortunately, as I was coming up on the final draft, a number of female vigilante movies came out. We had Tomb Raider and Kill Bill, which were the ones that worked, but then we had BloodRayne and Ultraviolet and Æon Flux. Æon Flux didn’t open well, and three days after it opened, the studio said, ‘We don’t think it’s time to do this movie.’”