If you have seen “the substance” (the daring horror film, strangely funny and incredibly bloody directed by Coralie Fargeat marked an impressive number of Oscar nominations During this season of awards), you probably cannot imagine how much the wilderness of Fargeat could translate into something like, let’s say, a film of Marvel cinematic universe. Apparently, the House of Ideas wanted Fargeat potentially the film MCU 2021 “Black Widow”, and Fargeat refused it – because it was already working on “the substance”.
In an interview Variety About her revolutionary film, which earned the star half moore her first Oscar nomination and a very first competitive actor prize when she won a Golden Globes trophy at the beginning of 2025, Fargeat declared that she had ended “preliminary” with Marvel on “Black Widow” because she was in the area … and only wanted something to bother her process.
“I got so closely during the film’s realization and the postproduction phase difficult, when everyone wanted me to make it less violent, less excessive, less bloody, less frontal. I knew that I had written this film for Be more than – or at least at the same level as – what I denounce in the film, “Fargeat has declared to the point of sale, saying that, in general, society is” always incredibly violent for women and puts us in boxes “and we” finally create our own violence against ourselves. “
Coralie Fargeat has transmitted Black Widow to focus on the substance – which has obtained a lot of decline from studios
Unfortunately for Coralie Fargeat, The studios were, to put it kindly, intimidated by his extreme vision for “the substance”. This even led to a direct dispute between Fargeat and Universal, which originally planned to distribute the film. According to Fargeat’s interview with Variety, some leaders – two men and a woman, to be exact – in the studio demanded fairly radical changes. “I think the film must have titled something in these gentlemen,” joked Fargeat.
Fargeat, to be fair, does not seem to feel universal that he asked her to change her film and she refused, ending their professional relationship (at least, with regard to the distribution of “the substance” ). “I can’t get too much into that,” just replied Fargeat. “I think it was as simple as it was not a good match for what they wanted to do. They felt, I think that very simply, that the gap was too big for them, how they sell movies […] I also know that there have been experiences that have been and can be worse. Despite everything, I was surrounded by people who did not always believe in the film, but there was no maliciousness. “”
Before “The Substance” was presented to glowing criticism at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival (a Fargeat dream, as she said to Variety), Mubi took the film, and the rest is in history. For a film as conflicting and difficult to watch (in the best way), at the very least, it is surprising that “the substance” is such a large part of the reward season … and it is a testimony to the Vision of Fargeat and his commitment to preserve this.
In the end, this is a good thing that Coralie Fargeat did not manage Black Widow
To be completely frank, it is probably a GOOD The thing that Coralie Fargeat was not involved in “Black Widow” … because the deployment of the only film of the Cinématographic Universe of Marvel Solo by Scarlett Johansson was an absolute mess. It is certainly not Disney’s fault that the COVVI-19 pandemic swept the world in 2020 and closed society for more than a year, preventing people from going to cinemas. Nevertheless, According to the trial, Johansson finally deposited against the mouse chamberThe studio insured She that the film would always get a theatrical version instead of going directly to its owner streamer, Disney +, but the latter is exactly what ended up happening.
The trial between Disney and Johansson was settled after only two monthsBut it was always an unflattering look for the studio (which, in the process, essentially accused Johansson of being greedy and called his “insensitive” behavior), and it is just to say that this experience would have left an author Like Fargeat in a fairly bad place professionally. In the end, Fargeat did not manage “Black Widow”, and now, his passion project has been nominated for the best film Oscar. Thus, unlike “the substance”, this story has a happy ending.
You can diffuse “the substance” on Mubi nowWhile “Black Widow” is available to broadcast on Disney +.