Marvel Studios has released a special look at their upcomingBlack Widowmovie. In addition to giving us our best look at the villainous Taskmaster yet, we also get to see Scarlett Johansson reflect on ten years of playing the Marvel Cinematic Universe character. Johansson notes that it’s not every day that an actor gets the chance to develop a character over the course of a decade, while declaring how lucky she has been throughout her time with the MCU. It’s been a long time coming, but it’s finally almost here.
Football fans were the first to see the brand-new special look at MarvelBlack Widowtonight during the National Championship game between the Clemson Tigers and the LSU Tigers on ESPN. The standalone movie is going to provide MCU fans with a story arc for Natasha Romanoff that was not able to be told inAvengers: Endgame, due to the massive amount of characters. Fans know how her story ultimately comes to an end, but they’re going to get better insight as to how she got there.
Avengers: Endgamesaw Natasha Romanoff in a different headspace. While all of Earth’s Mightiest Heroes were down after the events ofInfinity War, Scarlett Johansson’s Romanoff never gave up hope, though it seemed to drag her down at times.Black Widowis going to fill fans in onwhat happened before Infinity Warhappened, which should help to explain why the character was so adamant about making the ultimate sacrifice on Vormir instead of Hawkeye.
In Marvel Studios' action-packed spy thrillerBlack Widow, Natasha Romanoff, aka Black Widow, confronts the darker parts of her ledger when a dangerous conspiracy with ties to her past arises, not to mention Marvel favorite,Taskmaster. Pursued by a force that will stop at nothing to bring her down, Natasha must deal with her history as a spy and the broken relationships left in her wake long before she became an Avenger. Scarlett Johansson reprises her role as Natasha/Black Widow, Florence Pugh stars as Yelena, David Harbour portrays Alexei/The Red Guardian, and Rachel Weisz is Melina.
Directed by Cate Shortland and produced by Kevin Feige,Black Widow-the first movie inPhase Four of the Marvel Cinematic Universehits theaters on May 1st, 2020. MCU fans have been asking for a Natasha Romanoff movie for nearly a decade now, so it’s going to be interesting to see the reactions, especially afterAvengers: Endgamereveals her fate. Regardless, fans are also ready for the mysterious Phase 4 of the MCU to begin and see what comes next from Marvel Studios. In addition toBlack Widow, the studio is also releasing theEternalsmovie at the end of the year and then launching some TV shows on the new Disney+ streaming platform. You can check out the latest look atBlack Widowabove, thanks to the Marvel Entertainment YouTube channel.
