Why ‘Captain America: Civil War’ Writers Cut Cap-vs-Black Widow Fight Scene

“I think it works without this fight, but we certainly didn’t know if it would,” Stephen McFeely explains

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“Captain America: Civil War” writers Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely revealed that a major fight they wrote into the movie never made it into its final cut.

“There was a good fight between Captain America and Black Widow that we lost mainly due to time,” Christopher Markus told Fandango.

The writers also reasoned that, at this point in the movie, the tensions between Cap (Chris Evans) and Black Widow (Scarlett Johansson) have been addressed. Couple that with Black Widow’s already explosive fight against Hawkeye (Jeremy Renner), with whom she also has a close relationship, and the writers feared overkill.

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