Writer and actor David Hayter has spoken about the music of the shelved Black Widow movie that he was set to write and direct for Marvel in the mid-2000s.
On Twitter, Hayter quote-tweeted a post about how the 2023 film The Iron Claw had a needle-drop scene featuring “Tom Sawyer” by Rush. He revealed that his Black Widow movie was also “going to needle drop Tom Sawyer,” with the accompanying scene featuring the titular hero at the age of 12 as she stood up to fight her Red Room comrades. In a subsequent reply, Hayter also stated that the film’s credits song would have been “When I Grow Up” by Garbage.
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When did Marvel Studios’ Black Widow come out?
Black Widow was released in the United States on July 9, 2021. It was written by Eric Pearson, directed by Cate Shortland, and starred Scarlett Johansson, Florence Pugh, David Harbour, O-T Fagbenle, Olga Kurylenko, William Hurt, Ray Winstone, and Rachel Weisz. The film received generally positive reviews, with Johansson and Pugh’s performances being praised.
“In Marvel Studios’ action-packed spy thriller Black Widow, Natasha Romanoff aka Black Widow confronts the darker parts of her ledger when a dangerous conspiracy with ties to her past arises,” reads the movie’s synopsis. “Pursued by a force that will stop at nothing to bring her down, Natasha must deal with her history as a spy and the broken relationships left in her wake long before she became an Avenger.”
