Word on the street is that Marvel isn’t done casting The Avengers, and who they want to add will be another female for an as yet to be named role. Assumption says it will be a core Avenger (because we still don’t know who the big bad is) and that leads most assumptions to The Wasp – rumoured at one point to be played by Eva Longoria.
When the key cast of THE AVENGERS were announced back at Comic-Con ’10, poor Scarlett Johansson was just there by her lone female self, surrounded by Jackson, RDJ, Renner, Evans, Ruffalo, Hemsworth. Scar-Jo is set to play Black Widow. According to Hollywood Reporter, Marvel is looking for another female actress but the role is not yet revealed.
Now of course with a female role being mentioned, the gut reaction is to suggest The Wasp, but also remember that The Scarlet Witch is also a predominate classic Avengers girl too. I would assume Scarlet Witch is not part of the rights deal that Fox has over X-Characters as she is primarily an Avenger despite the fact that she and her brother Quicksilver are Magneto’s children. A detail easily overlooked for the films.
However with each of those two comes man baggage and people are suggesting if they add the Wasp they HAVE to add Ant-Man, and with Scarlet Witch they would HAVE to have The Vision – their respective love interests in the comic series.
I personally don’t see the need for either of them to be brought down with love interests in an ensemble film. If they add either one of these girls there is no reason to insist on their eventual boyfriends to be involved either.
But in the end of the day, it sounds more like Marvel is trying to throw some balance of the double X chromosome into the mix so Scarlett is not the only girl at the party. In that case I vote for The Wasp and let her cross over into Ant-Man’s film where there will be time to develop a love interest if they want.
I don’t have time for love interests in The Avengers.
