Black Widow: Release Date, Cast, Plot and more!

The production of a Black Widow film began in April 2004 with Lionsgate, with David Hayter attached to writing and directing. The script did not go forward and the film rights to the character returned to Marvel Studios by June 2006. Johansson has ben in the role of many MCU movies starting with Iron Man 2 (2010).

Marvel and Johansson shared their interest in a solo film several times during the following years, until Schaeffer and Shortland were recruited in 2018. Benson joined at the beginning of 2019, adding Pearson later. The filming took place in Norway, Budapest, Morocco, Pinewood Studios in the United Kingdom, and in Atlanta and Macon, Georgia, from May to October.

WHAT IS BLACK WIDOW ABOUT?

According to Wikipedia, “Following the events of Captain America: Civil War (2016), Natasha Romanoff finds herself alone and forced to confront a dangerous conspiracy with ties to her past. Pursued by a force that will stop at nothing to bring her down, Romanoff must deal with her history as a spy and the broken relationships left in her wake long before she became an Avenger.”

WHAT IS THE CAST FOR BLACK WIDOW?

• Scarlett Johansson as Natasha Romanoff / Black Widow
• Florence Pugh as Yelena Belova / Black Widow
• David Harbour as Alexei Shostakov / Red Guardian
• O-T Fagbenle as Rick Mason
• William Hurt as Thaddeus Ross

WHEN IS BLACK WIDOW RELEASING?

Black Widow is scheduled to be released in the United States on 7 May 2021 as the MCU’s first Phase Four film. Its launch was postponed twice from the original date of May 2020 due to the pandemic of COVID-19.