Fans have spoken in numerous polls, op/eds, and blog posts: they want a Black Widow movie. As much as Marvel Studios has done to bring the superhero universe to the big screen in an exciting way, they still haven't given a female character the title role. Yes, Captain Marvel is on the way, but what about Natasha Romanov?

"I would say certainly the one creatively and emotionally that we are most committing to doing is Black Widow," Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige told Deadline when asked about the cinematic future of her, Hawkeye, Falcon, and War Machine. He cautioned that a solo film for her is not part of the next nine-movie, through-2019 plan, but it could happen.

"We think she's an amazing character," he said. "We think Scarlett Johansson's portrayal of her is amazing. She's a lead Avenger and has amazing stories in her own right to tell that we think would be fun to turn into a standalone franchise."

It's certainly an encouraging sign, but as he said, they have "a lot to do before then" with the 3.5-year 9-film slate they have planned. Still, it does sound like Marvel Studios is taking note everytime someone speaks up about their desire for more Black Widow.

Marvel’s Standalone ‘Black Widow’ Movie Gains Momentum With Jac Schaeffer Writing
By Justin Kroll

Marvel is finally pushing ahead with the highly anticipated “Black Widow” standalone movie starring Scarlett Johansson, with Jac Schaeffer penning the script.

Sources say this is still very early development, as the film has no greenlight, but naming a writer is the closest the studio has come to moving forward on a standalone pic. Marvel President Kevin Feige met with several candidates before tapping Schaeffer, and Marvel execs met with Johansson to discuss what they wanted from a “Black Widow” writer.

Schaeffer is an up and coming scribe who broke out with her Black List script “The Shower,” a comedy about an alien invasion during a baby shower which caught the eye of Anne Hathaway, who quickly attached herself to star in the pic.

Hathaway was so impressed with her work that she soon tapped Schaeffer to write “Nasty Women,” a new female-centric take on “Dirty Rotten Scoundrels” that also stars Hathaway.

Marvel had no comment.

Fans of the character have been pushing for her to get own movie since she first appeared in “Iron Man 2” and with the latest phase of Marvel films coming to a close, Marvel saw this as the best time to move forward with the project.

Johansson has appeared as the character in six films, the next one being this summer’s “Avengers: Infinity War.”

Schaeffer is repped by Verve and Writ Large.

I've been waiting for it since her opening scene in the The Avengers.

I'm pretty surprised they haven't done it already, or at least made more of an effort to get it done, it seems like a no-brainer.

She also wrote the upcoming female-centric remake of Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, which was formerly titled Nasty Women and is now called The Hustle.