DEADLINE: You’ve got a bunch of characters in this movie from Falcon and War Machine and Black Widow and Hawkeye, who have so far guest starred in movies with another characters title above the fold. Is there one destined to get a solo movie down the line?

FEIGE: We’ve announced the next nine movies, 10 counting Civil War, through the end of 2019. Where we go beyond that are ongoing discussions that we’ll focus on in the next few years because we have a lot to do before then. Of the characters that you’ve just mentioned I would say certainly the one creatively and emotionally that we are most committing to doing is Black Widow.

DEADLINE: Why?

FEIGE: We think she’s an amazing character. 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 stand-alone franchise.

The Marvel Cinematic Universe is slowly starting to get a little more diverse, thanks to the addition of Black Panther and Captain Marvel movies to the MCU lineup. With Marvel confirming at San Diego Comic-Con yesterday that Brie Larson will be playing Carol Danvers in the upcoming Captain Marvel solo movie, the MCU will finally see a female character in a lead role instead of a supporting one.

While that is good news for diversity in comic book movies, it may come as a bitter pill to fans who have been hoping that Black Widow would be the first female superhero to have her own standalone Marvel movie. The possibility of a Black Widow solo movie has been the topic of much discussion since Scarlett Johansson first appeared in the role in Iron Man 2, but so far no such movie has yet been announced. If it were, though, there is at least one person who would be interested in directing it.

That person is Joss Whedon, who previously directed Avengers and Avengers: Age of Ultron for Marvel. While he stepped out of the director’s chair after Age of Ultron, that does not mean he would be unwilling to return to the role. While speaking to IGN at San Diego Comic-Con, Whedon was asked if he had any interest in directing a Black widow movie. Whedon said he would definitely be up for the job:

For Taika Waititi, something about Thor: Ragnarok just made sense. The character’s humor in all his previous appearance almost screamed for a director with his unique comedic skills to come on board the franchise. But did Waititi, who’d previously directed What We Do In the Shadows and Hunt for the Wilderpeople, ever consider other Marvel characters his brand of humor might fit with?

“In all honesty, I reckon I could probably bring something pretty unique to any of the franchises,” Waititi told me. “So I’d love to see Black Widow.”

Whaaaaaat?

“[I’d like to see] Black Widow as something crazy and a bit funnier than we expect it to be,” he continued. “Because we know her story and it’s very sullen and very dark and her history is very dark. But! What’s the funny version of that? What’s the more entertaining version of that?”

If Waititi had said Hawkeye, that would make sense. Vision and Wanda? Sure. War Machine? of course. Falcon? One million percent. But Black Widow? A comedy version of her story is so fundamentally opposed to the character’s downtrodden history, well, it almost makes it the one not-obvious choice. And Waititi is all about not making the obvious choice.

“I really go for the underdog,” he explains. “[And] I think there’s a way in with any of the characters. You just have to find it and find what honors what’s already there with the source material but also brings it into a more entertaining form for the audience.”

It’s important to remember that while this is a fun hypothetical, the odds of Waititi actually making a Black Widow movie seem pretty slim. It feels almost too crazy for even Marvel to attempt. But that doesn’t make it impossible. He has expressed interest in doing another Marvel movie. Thor: Ragnarok is the third film in a franchise and the only Marvel franchise to yet get a fourth film so far is The Avengers. So Thor 4 seems unlikely, at least for a while. Maybe, just maybe, this could be something that happens in the future.

We’ll have more from our interview with Waititi soon.