Hawkeye Writers Didn’t Know About Black Widow Post-Credit / Yelena Scene – The Hollywood Reporter
[This story contains spoilers for Hawkeye episode four.]
The last moments of Black Widow highlights a surprise for the audience – and it turns out, even ‘s writing team Hawk Eye Didn’t know about it at first.
In Black Widow of In the mid-credits scene, Yelena, the breakout character played by Florence Pugh, is put on the trail of Jeremy Renner’s Clint Barton/Hawkeye, appearing on Renner’s Disney+ show starting with this week’s episode.
When Marvel added that scene, Hawk Eye the group wrote Yelena on their show after chief screenwriter Jonathan Igla lobbied to include her in the series. One day, Igla received word from Marvel Studios boss Kevin Feige that Black Widow will include a post-credits scene leading up to Hawk Eye, but he had to keep it to himself to keep it a secret for as long as possible.
“There was a period when I wasn’t allowed to share it with the rest of the writing staff. There are some things like that, it’s challenging,” said Igla The Hollywood Reporter. “I did my best. I like to think I’m an honest broker, and if someone tells me not to share something, even if I think, ‘Wow, the letterhead really needs to know this,’ I just trust it. into their process…. I kept it under my hat for a while. ”
Turns out that secret is a two-way street. Segments of the scene were also preserved Black Widow screenwriter Eric Pearson. He asks to write a scene in which Valentina Allegra de Fontaine (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) sends Yelena on the hunt for Clint Barton, but is not told why.
“They told me, ‘and in the end, this is the goal.’ And I asked, ‘What does that mean?’ They said, ‘Don’t worry about it. You don’t have to know it,” Pearson said CHEAP in July. “I said, ‘Who am I smitten with? Something is happening! I have no answer for this. ‘ They said, ‘You don’t have to. We will find that out. ‘ “
Pearson even had some guilt, saying CHEAP: “I remember writing it and feeling so guilty. “I hope whatever writers are working on this next chapter will be fine with what I’ve done with them.”
Igla, however, assured that Pearson had nothing to feel guilty about.
“I made it clear to Kevin, Lou and Victoria that Yelena has a place in our story and this is the right place for her next chapter. So I think the scene was created to support that,” said Igla. “Clearly the rest of the letter writers knew we were building pitches around her as soon as I agreed.”
