Details on the first Black Widow solo movie, which is coming in the MCU’s Phase 4.
You wouldn’t have the Marvel Cinematic Universe without Scarlett Johansson’s Black Widow. Still, while the movies’ male heroes piled up solo movies, the key MCU hero had to be satisfied with merely co-starring in other characters’ movies – until now. Well, after the all the chaos delivered on the film by the coronavirus-induced delay has calmed down anyway. When the solo Black Widow movie finally arrives, the much-deserved spotlight will be on Natasha Romanoff, and her mysterious past life as an assassin trained by the Russian government. As we’re lurched back into aftermath of Civil War, the Black Widow movie is the MCU pioneer heralding the dawn of a new era alongside Doctor Strange and Black Panther sequels, and new properties like The Eternals and Shang-Chi. Here’s what you need to know about the Black Widow movie release date, trailer, cast, and how it fits into the wider Marvel Cinematic Universe timeline. Spoilers for older MCU films follow. The Black Widow movie is now slated for May 7, 2021, a full year after its original release date. Primarily due to the coronavirus, this means there will be no MCU films to come out in a calendar year since 2009, as The Eternals and Shang-Chi make way for Romanoff’s adventure by shifting back later into next year. Before Black Widow was delayed into next year, Disney confirmed to Digital Spy that the UK release date would be a week earlier than in the US, but it’s anybody’s guess how the state of the world and the film industry will look as we approach the new Black Widow release date. Above, you can watch the final Black Widow trailer. The other four, including the Super Bowl 2020 Big Game spot and behind-the-scenes featurette on Marvel’s YouTube channel. When it comes to what the teaser footage tells us so far, the final trailer shows us more of the Taskmaster’s plan: he’s using the Red Room where Natasha was trained to control agents. The first trailer opens with a montage of Romanoff staring into a mirror and scenes from previous MCU movies to highlight the film’s key theme: family. “I used to have nothing. But then I got this job. This family. But nothing lasts forever,” she says. We also see Romanoff meeting a returning William Hurt as Thaddeus “Thunderbolt” Ross – could this be where the Russian agent is persuaded to defect to the United States? – and Florence Pugh’s Yelena Belova, an operative with similar skills to Black Widow, who Romanoff describes as “sis”.
